What an ignominious site for the end of The Greatest Show On Earth....the Nassau Mausoleum........(sigh)
I watched the Ringling Brothers in Madison Square Garden and it was wonderful, despite the Garden being a dump. That circus was the creme de la creme of American circuses.
Another great circus was the Moscow circus with stunning white horses racing around Radio City Hall! I saw this the year the Soviet Union fell and the performers sang the Russian and American national anthem at the finale.