Ghost Towns in Nevada

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

A well-preserved set of ruins not far from Lovelock.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

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

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

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

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

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

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

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