Henderson, Nevada
Heritage Street
Clark County Museum has created an entire street of historically important buildings relocated from various other locations within the county.
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Henderson, Nevada
Clark County Museum has created an entire street of historically important buildings relocated from various other locations within the county.
Virginia City, Nevada
Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.
Reno, Nevada
Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."
Austin, Nevada
This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.
Laughlin, Nevada
A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Tonopah, Nevada
A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."
Austin, Nevada
US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.
Reno, Nevada
The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.
Reno, Nevada
An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.
Reno, Nevada
This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.
Tonopah, Nevada
The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Fallon, Nevada
The first project by the Bureau of Reclamation illustrates both the upsides and downsides of reclamation.
Fallon, Nevada
The sump of the landlocked Carson River is a haven for wildlife.
Carson City, Nevada
The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.
Carson City, Nevada
Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.
Yerington, Nevada
A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.
Silver Springs, Nevada
The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.
Mound House, Nevada
On the side of Highway 50 East, between Carson City and Dayton, Nevada, sits a giant metal spider made from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle.
Reno, Nevada
What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.
Reno, Nevada
This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.
Lovelock, Nevada
How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.
Virginia City, Nevada
A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.