All Places in Nevada

The limestone composition of this spectacular arch makes it unique to the region.

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

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

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

Well-preserved ruins in the Pine Grove Hills of western Nevada.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

It bustled briefly in the late 1860s, but little is now left at this stage stop on the Hamilton/Pioche Stage and Freight Road

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

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

The site of an improbable and ill-fated attempt to use dammed floodwaters for irrigation.

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

An improbable water gap where the West Walker River, paralleled by a state highway, crosses the Singatse Range between Smith and Mason Valleys.

A spring and an enigmatic cabin lie in a ponderosa pine forest in the heart of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

Nevada's second-newest state park offers camping, fishing, hiking, and river float trips.

The first project by the Bureau of Reclamation illustrates both the upsides and downsides of reclamation.