All Places in Nevada

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

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

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.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

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

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

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

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

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

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

Red rock "fangs" jut out of the desert near the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Two well-preserved charcoal kilns survive in a remote part of eastern Nevada.