Fake King Tut Tomb
Las Vegas, Nevada
Built in 1993 for $3 million, the fake King Tut tomb was originally inside the pyramid-shaped Luxor Casino, and for years was the classiest attraction on the Las Vegas Strip (The real King Tut tomb is near Luxor, Egypt).
In 2008 the fake tomb was scrapped by the casino and donated to the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, which reopened it as Treasures of Egypt. The tomb and everything in it -- gold statues, chariots, mummies, nearly 500 artifacts -- are fake, but they're really, really good fakes -- one of only two sets authorized by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. To further its educational mission, the Las Vegas Natural History Museum has added a "mummy scan." It scans one of the dummy mummies, then shows medical images taken of a real mummy.