Las Vegas, a city of excess, ain’t what it used to be. With the recession having hit the town hard and fast one might even talk about what happened in Vegas instead of happens. What follows is the story of Lost Vegas.

During the boom years, no place in America boomed more than Las Vegas. But when the economy collapsed, Vegas fell hard. Laura Ling tours the wreckage of Sin City, from unemployed strippers and half-built, abandoned casino projects, to hospitals turning away cancer patients and ambulances, to one of the few remaining boom industries–evicting people. Wonder if it might ever get so far as being over & out for the desert city of dancing girls & gambling. Out.