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The oldest standing building in Las Vegas was established by Mormon settlers.

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

Ghost hunters have fueled up at this diner for more than a century.

The strongest earthquake in Nevada's recorded history left these spectacular breaks along the west front of a range in central Nevada.

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

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

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

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

Red rock "fangs" jut out of the desert near the Extraterrestrial Highway.

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.

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

Clark County Museum has created an entire street of historically important buildings relocated from various other locations within the county.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

Take in the beauty of the Milky Way at one of the best sites for stargazing in Nevada—a state with some tough competition.

This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.

A large wave-cut shelter, a major archeological site, overlooks the dry basin of Winnemucca Lake.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.