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Yucca Mountain Repository

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

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Nye County, Nevada

Easy Chair Crater

An unusual double cinder cone with a bent oval crater, in the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field.

9 miles from Nye

Nye County, Nevada

Project Faultless Site

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

10 miles from Nye

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Lunar Crater

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

13 miles from Nye

From the southwest.

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Pritchard's Station

A remarkably well-preserved stage stop from the late 19th century in a remote part of Nevada.

15 miles from Nye

Looking due east across the crater; vehicle for scale.

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Meteorite Crater

Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.

21 miles from Nye

US 6, looking east to a squall, just west of Warm Springs.

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U.S. 6 in Nevada

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

24 miles from Nye

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