Fall down the rabbit hole (meaning take the escalator down from Bally’s casino floor) to The Cabinet of Curiosities and The Lock. This strange, beautiful, new land is filled with drinking adventures combined with experiential storytelling, sure to make both your mind and body giddy with delight.

Your first adventure begins inside The Cabinet of Curiosities. Inside this lounge, you can spend hours exploring cabinet after cabinet filled with oddities that have strange, funny and entertaining stories behind them. Each piece is assigned a number—find out its name and story by scanning a QR code on your phone. Look up No. 4381, the Mystical Typewriter, where folklore claims that a tale composed with the typewriter will make its author famous but with irksome caveats. Or how about No. 6641, the Copper Watering Can once owned by Lucretia Spatz, who used it to water her prize-winning begonias. But the neighbors had no idea what she was grinding up in her basement to use for fertilizer. There’s also No. 8251, the Dancing Squid that once belonged to the breeders of competitive show-jumping squids.

Another great feature of The Cabinet is that some of the specialty cocktails are inspired by the oddities like the Dancing Squid. The Dancing Squid Stinger is a mix of cognac, crème de menthe and cream. Or opt for one of the other popular cocktails that are twists on classics like the Peachtree Sweet Tea, a version of Long Island Iced Tea, mixed with vodka, gin, rum, peach liqueur, sour mix and sweetened tea.

Your adventure doesn’t end inside The Cabinet, though; it continues when you make a reservation for The Lock, a speakeasy behind what looks like a vault door. Pick up the telephone to get a secret password, wait for a keyhole to open, give your password and the door opens into an antechamber where you and your party will have to solve a puzzle to make it into the intimate speakeasy. Inside, you’ll travel back in time and sip on specialty cocktails like Smoke and Mirrors with tequila, mezcal, violet flower liqueur, lemon juice and hibiscus syrup or the Key to My Pink Heart (this writer’s fave) with rum, crème de almond, crème de cocoa and oatmilk. A special touch inside The Lock is getting to build your own cocktail with the bartender based on your preferences.

“Enjoy our list, but know we can go above and beyond it,” says mixologist Daniel Ponsky. “We can cater a cocktail to your personality, your feelings and your mood and really curate an experience for you in the moment.” Inside the speakeasy, there’s even a more hidden room behind one of the paintings, a VIP space perfect for a group that wants to have some private-party fun. –Kiko Miyasato

Bally’s, 21+, the cabinetlv.com. You must make a reservation for The Lock, a 90-minute experience with a two-drink minimum.

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