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Take in the beauty of the Milky Way at one of the best sites for stargazing in Nevada—a state with some tough competition.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

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

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.

A small research station sits at the summit of this mountain, which is one of the few U.S. peaks higher than 14,000 feet outside of the Sierra Nevada.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

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