History & Culture in Nevada

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

Exhibiting the tallest structure of its type in Nevada, this massive mining complex is frozen in time.

Beehive charcoal kilns and slag deposits mark this late 19th century camp centered on a smelter.

A remarkably well-preserved brick chimney from a smelter dating to the 1860s is all that remains of this former mill.

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

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

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

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

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

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

One of the few remaining indigenous petroglyph sites in Nevada.

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

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

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

This giant slab of driftwood marks the beginning of the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.