The $12 Billion Mega-Resort That Was Supposed to Replace the Strip — Now It's Abandoned

There is a sixty-seven story tower sitting on the Las Vegas Strip right now that cost more to build than the entire GDP of some small nations. At its peak, thirty-three hundred workers showed up every single day to pour concrete, hang glass, and wire the future. Then one morning, the cranes stopped. The workers went home. And for over a decade, that tower just stood there, empty, unfinished, staring down at the Strip like a ghost that didn't know it was dead. This is the story of the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.