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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.

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

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

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

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

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

These 100-year-old tunnels in downtown Provo house artists, restaurants, and a few surprises.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

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

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

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

An unusual waterfall in the Santa Rosa Range, within the Great Basin of Nevada.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

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

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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