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A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

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

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.

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.

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

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

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

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

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

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