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A view of the Space Whale lit up at night in front of Reno’s City Hall.

Reno, Nevada

Space Whale

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

The upper two floors of Virginia City’s three-story Washoe Club.

Virginia City, Nevada

The Washoe Club Haunted Museum & Saloon

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

Inside store

McGill, Nevada

McGill Drugstore Museum

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts and statue of a pioneer family.

Reno, Nevada

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

Mouse's Tank

Moapa Valley, Nevada

Mouse's Tank

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

Looking east at the Sand Springs Range (skylined) from near US-50.  The Project Shoal site is near the crest about a quarter of the way from the left edge of the photo.

Fallon, Nevada

Project Shoal Site

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

Guardian of Eden outside NMA

Reno, Nevada

Guardian of Eden

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

The old part of the Gold Hill Hotel, seen from the street.

Virginia City, Nevada

Gold Hill Hotel

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

Warm Springs Ghost Town

Nye County, Nevada

Warm Springs Ghost Town

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

A stone with its trail on Bonnie Claire Playa

Nye County, Nevada

Sailing Stones of Bonnie Claire Playa

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

St. Mary's Art Center.

Virginia City, Nevada

St. Mary’s Art Center

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

Looking south at night.

Reno, Nevada

Old Reno Arch

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

The bar at the Red Dog.

Virginia City, Nevada

Red Dog Saloon

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Looking toward Eastgate on old US-50 (NV-722), from near its west junction.

Austin, Nevada

Nevada State Route 722

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

Sheep Range (skylined) east from Alamo Road.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Desert National Wildlife Refuge

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Golden Tiki

Las Vegas, Nevada

Golden Tiki

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

Omega Mart

Las Vegas, Nevada

Omega Mart at Area 15

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

Alien Research Center

Hiko, Nevada

Alien Research Center

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Golden Gate Casino

Las Vegas, Nevada

The First Telephone in Las Vegas

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.

Nighttime looking north.

Reno, Nevada

Topsy the Clown

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

Meet Last Chance Joe, a grizzled, 36-foot-high prospector figure that was abandoned by its owner, a Sparks, Nevada casino.

Sparks, Nevada

Last Chance Joe

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

"It doesn't belong here."

Elko, Nevada

White King

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Entrance to the National Bowling Stadium, with its 80-foot bowling ball sculpture

Reno, Nevada

National Bowling Stadium

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

Piper's Opera House today

Virginia City, Nevada

Piper's Opera House

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

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