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A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

The smallest country in the world.