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10 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Virginia City, Nevada

Updated July 17, 2026
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The Virginia City, Nevada, headquarters of E Clampus Vitus still stands in the middle of the town. According to officials, E Clampus Vitus is the only one of the remaining nineteenth-century fraternal orders that is growing in the twenty-first century.

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