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This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

A spring and an enigmatic cabin lie in a ponderosa pine forest in the heart of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.

Fans have made a utility pole near where the 90s musician was shot into an ersatz memorial.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.