As one of the country's favorite year-round gaming resorts, Atlantic City's famous Boardwalk is lined with luxury casinos and showrooms where top entertainers play nightly. In between are souvenir shops, ice cream stands, ocean piers and good-time restaurants, as well as museums showcasing the strange, the historical and the sublime. All this fun overlooks a long stretch of white-sand beach that competes with a bounty of other diversions. Easily reached by car in just one hour from Philadelphia and two and a half hours from New York City, this beachfront casino and entertainment hot spot is reclaiming its title as "America's Favorite Playground."