Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens

This guide to the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens in Las Vegas explains a ritual that has run five times a year since Martha Stewart trimmed the very first Christmas tree here in 1998: the entire floor is torn out and rebuilt from nothing. It follows the roughly one hundred twenty-five workers who do it in round-the-clock shifts over six days, hauling in tens of thousands of flowers, trees and even trained birds and butterflies. Look up while you listen at Dale Chihuly's Fiori di Como, the one fixture in the room that never changes.