The building that was opened as Trump's Taj Mahal in 1990 — then the largest casino in the world — is now the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, rebranded after Trump's successive bankruptcies and the casino's eventual closure and reopening in 2018. The exterior remains the same improbable exercise in Indo-Islamic architectural pastiche: onion domes, minarets, and coloured tile work on a boardwalk in New Jersey. Inside, the Hard Rock's decor of music memorabilia has replaced the original gold-and-crystal excess.
The venue is worth visiting for the scale of the thing and for the Hard Rock Live arena (officially the Mark G. Etess Arena), which seats around 7,000 and hosts major concerts and boxing matches. The casino floor runs 24 hours and the hotel towers contain some of the largest suites in Atlantic City. Whether you find any of this appealing depends on how you feel about casinos generally; as casinos go, this one is at least spectacular.