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The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

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

This large chunk of dark rock is a relic from an ancient volcanic eruption.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

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

Dedicated to an airmail pilot who never let go of his important payload.

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.

This trench, some 2,300 feet long, is only the most prominent relic of a largely forgotten episode of placer mining on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada.

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

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

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

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

The strongest earthquake in Nevada's recorded history left these spectacular breaks along the west front of a range in central Nevada.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

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

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.