Ruins in Nevada

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

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

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

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

It bustled briefly in the late 1860s, but little is now left at this stage stop on the Hamilton/Pioche Stage and Freight Road

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

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.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

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

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.