While tourists flock to the neon-lit Strip with wallets open wide, savvy Nevada locals make their way to a different kind of Las Vegas institution – the Charleston Indoor Swap Meet, where treasure hunting becomes an art form and bargain-finding reaches Olympic sport status.
This sprawling indoor marketplace has become the weekend pilgrimage site for deal-seekers across the Silver State, all drawn by the siren song of dirt-cheap prices and one-of-a-kind finds.
You might think you’ve seen flea markets before, but this isn’t your grandmother’s yard sale with folding tables of dusty knickknacks.
This is bargain hunting on an industrial scale – a climate-controlled labyrinth where hundreds of vendors hawk everything from fresh mangoes dusted with tajin to suspiciously affordable designer handbags…