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A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

The only United States mine for magnesium carbonate has been operating continuously since the 1930s.

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

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

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

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

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

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

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

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