The iconic Mirage sign – which has welcomed guests from Las Vegas Boulevard for the past 34 years – will live on within The Neon Museum’s collection. Courtesy Neon Museum ...

Past the towering Strip hotels and bright lights of the Fremont Street Experience lies a boneyard filled with history that comes alive at night. When an old hotel, bar or even flower shop was set to ...

My first visit to the spot that would become the Neon Museum was on July 12, 2001, or so my photo archive tells me. On that day, I went to the Young Electric Sign Company’s (YESCO) “boneyard,” then a ...

“Rainbow Room” faces possible doom. Photo: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis/Getty Images “Rainbow Room” faces possible doom. Photo: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis/Getty Images Editor’s note: On December 17, after ...

Randall Ann Homan and Al Barna look both ways before darting across Grant Avenue in San Francisco’s Chinatown and find themselves standing underneath a masterpiece hidden in plain sight. Partly ...

Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...

Tulsa preservationists and artists work to restore, maintain, and create new iconic neon signs along Route 66.

Vintage neon signs have become a rare and treasured thing in the Valley. In fact, local preservationists estimate there are only around three dozen old-school illuminated displays still in operation ...

In a cluttered corner of his New Orleans studio, Nate Sheaffer pulled a glass tube through blue flames, coaxing it with gentle puffs from a blow hose until it curled into cursive letters. Four mounted ...