The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace

This guide to the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace centers on Bacchus, the animatronic wine god who took the throne fourteen times a day when the mall's Festival Fountain show opened in 1992, flanked by Venus, Apollo and Plutus beneath a painted sky ceiling. You'll hear why his own booming voice swallowed his words, and how confused visitors polled afterward could not agree whether they had just watched a wedding or a war. Look up at that same painted sky, still shifting from morning blue to evening glow on its own clock.