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The oldest hotel in Nevada.

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

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

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.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

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

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

Colorful outcrops and cliffs just north of Reno provide a scenic backdrop for hiking and mountain biking.

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

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.

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

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

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

This little-used trail winds through the highest mountain range in central Nevada with sections around 10,000 feet.

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

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.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

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

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

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

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