All Places in Nevada

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.

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

A large wave-cut shelter, a major archeological site, overlooks the dry basin of Winnemucca Lake.

A small shop filled with history, mystery, folklore, and more.

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

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

The gambling entrepreneur who built a city was also an avid collector of classic cars.

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

A tiny slice shop hides down an unmarked hallway in a Las Vegas casino.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

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

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 well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

A well-preserved set of ruins not far from Lovelock.

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

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