Elevated from New Mexico’s high desert lands lays Las Vegas - nicknamed “City Of Enchantment” due its unique blend Spanish colonial adobe architecture blended with modernized infrastructure - whose total population amounts 14 thousand residents . Among its iconic places legendary Plaza Hotel downtown ( originally built 1882 ) Catwalk Recreation Site outside town ; both have been sources awe visitors who contemplate quaintness yet fascinating past hanging air inside every corner these famed locations have kept alive intact till date.