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The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

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

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

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

The oldest standing building in Las Vegas was established by Mormon settlers.

The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

Fans have made a utility pole near where the 90s musician was shot into an ersatz memorial.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

It bustled briefly in the late 1860s, but little is now left at this stage stop on the Hamilton/Pioche Stage and Freight Road

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

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

One of the best-preserved early 20th-century ore-processing mills in Nevada is maintained in a state of arrested decay.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A remarkably well-preserved stage stop from the late 19th century in a remote part of Nevada.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.