Abandoned in Nevada

Discover 12 abandoned places in Nevada.

Pahrump, Nevada

Wheeler Kilns

Collapsed charcoal kilns in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada.

Palisade

Little is left of this formerly bustling railroad junction on the Transcontinental Railroad.

Thompson Smelter

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.

Denio Junction, Nevada

Homer Verne (Adams) Mine

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

Yerington, Nevada

Pine Grove and Rockland

Well-preserved ruins in the Pine Grove Hills of western Nevada.

Nye County, Nevada

Warm Springs Ghost Town

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

Old shack by Nevada Quicksilver Mine, with pronghorn antelope.

Lovelock, Nevada

Nevada Quicksilver Mine

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

Entry arch of the old school.

Metropolis Ghost Town

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

Caliente, Nevada

Delamar Ghost Town

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Goldfield Hotel main entrance on Columbia Street in 1976

Goldfield, Nevada

Goldfield Hotel

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Coaldale, Nevada

Esmeralda County, Nevada

Coaldale, Nevada

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Permanently Closed

American Flats

Silver City, Nevada

American Flats

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Train station

Rhyolite Ghost Town

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Are we missing something unusual in Nevada?