Ten Pages (or More): 11. The Passage, by Justin Cronin, pp. 495-539

They find "slims," desiccated corpses and skeletons, in room after room, sitting at the gambling tables where they had died. There are fancy shops, too, and in one Amy picks up a snow-globe souvenir for the Milagro Hotel and Casino. Michael identifies the pervasive smell as methane. ... The room has a view of the Eiffel Tower across the street, which Caleb identifies from a book he once read, though nobody can quite understand why it's here and not in Paris. ...