To fulfill what has become a seasonal tradition for me, I just went back again to the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens inside MGM Resorts’ Bellagio Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. If you’re not familiar with it already, the Conservatory is an area near the registration and check-in desk of the hotel where designers build themed sets that are decorated based on the season.

I was there to check out their winter installation, “All Aboard for Holiday Bells and Whistles.” Yesterday was actually the last day to see this installation, as they’ve already gone into their dark days to swap everything out to the Lunar New Year 2026 exhibit. In case you missed it, I took plenty of photographs during my last-minute visit before they closed down.

If you want to see past installations, the Bellagio keeps a small photo archive of the most recent ones on their website. If you want to see ones from further back in time, or if you specifically want to see my pictures, I have blog posts up for “Lunar New Year 2025: Year of the Snake,” “The Birds and the B’s,” and “Glam Menagerie: Surrealist Summer.”