One of the high points of our Vegas trip was our tour of the Neon Boneyard. The Neon Museum works to preserve the history of Vegas as seen thru it's signature signs. They have several restored signs around the Fremont St. area downtown. They also have the signs not yet restored (or not scheduled to be restored) in two lots just north of downtown. The lots don't look all that big at first but they are just crammed with stuff. Including old signage from the Golden Nugget, Binion's, the Silver Slipper, the Dunes, Stardust, Sahara. The tour was fascinating. Our guide knew a lot of interesting stories about the history of Vegas as well as the history of the various signs. My two favorite things were the signs from the Algiers, where Sarah and I stayed on our first trip to Vegas (I've probably mentioned that many times already but, hey, this is my house and I'm allowed to be rambling and repetitious) and also one of the big pirate skulls from Treasure Island. Our guide said that if you look at the site of the Boneyard on Google Earth you can see the pirate skull looking up at you but I haven't verified this.
The Neon Museum is currently working on several projects that will make them much more of a presence. They've got part of the La Concha Motel (the first actual architecture that's been donated to them) and they're restoring it to use as a visitor center for the museum and Boneyard. I think the plan is for one of the two lots to house the restored signs and the visitor center and for the other to remain the boneyard. Also they plan to have several restored signs in the median strip of the street leading from downtown to the museum/boneyard. So that should be mighty impressive once it's ready.
If you go to flickr and search, you can find lots of pics from the Boneyard. I haven't decided whether to put any of mine up. They said they were okay with personal photos but not with any commercial uses. But flickr falls into a grey area. In some ways it is just a big online personal photo album. But once something's online, it's easy for anyone to just take it and do whatever with it. Obviously, that doesn't bother some people but like I said, I'm still sorting out what I think.