Most Photographed Sculpture in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

If you believe its publicist, this is the Most Photographed Sculpture in Las Vegas. It's the cast-from-life bronze posteriors of the Crazy Girls, a semi-nude showgirl revue that ran in Las Vegas for 34 years, from 1988 until 2022 (The show was corny and campy, with an amusing male juggler interspersed for comic relief). Anyone can see the bronze butts for free. Above it is the Crazy Girls' slogan: "No ifs, ands, or.... (empty space)."

The sculpture, by Michael Conine, is six feet high and 11 feet wide and was created in 1997 to commemorate the show's 10th anniversary at a cost of $325,000.

For posterior posterity, the showgirls immortalized in the sculpture are (L-R) Karen Raider, Debra Sill, Pat Lumpkin, Kim Baranco, Angela Sampras-Stabile, Michelle Sandoval, and Chris Zytko.

The sculpture does seem to attract shutterbugs; during the brief time that we spent taking photos, several other people came up to do the same thing. So it was less embarrassing for us, sort of.

Women usually stand next to the last butt in line, jutting a hip and matching their derrieres to those of the display. Men usually rub, grope, slap, or pretend to bite a butt. Vigorous burnishing of the bottoms imparts good luck in direct proportion to the velocity and friction heat attained -- or so we were told.