Las Vegas Mixtape v3: Freewheeling In Vegas: Shows, Eateries, Movie Theaters, and a Mind-Altering Museum — Track #8: The Paradox Museum, The Strip

Track #8: The Paradox Museum, The Strip

Why waste precious time on your local gym’s treadmill when you can give your brain an intense workout at the recently opened Paradox Museum? Across 90-plus exhibits—highlighted by ones incorporating cleverly arranged mirrors—your eyes will be tricked and your perception disrupted.

I experienced the dizzying Mirror Maze, the strangely Tilted Room, and the Paradox Tunnel, where it’s a challenge to walk straight. Prepare to spend 90 minutes to two hours at the museum, depending on how long you’ll end up snapping photos of yourself and friends in exhibits like the Reversed Room and another one where two people’s images bizarrely blend into one in the mirror. At another mind-altering installation, my head was handed to me on a platter (if you go, you’ll know).

A visit to the museum is fun but mentally exhausting, too. With all these reality-defying paradoxes, you’ll be scratching your head while wandering through the multiple rooms. I needed a stiff drink afterward to reboot my mind.