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Virginia City, Nevada

Red Dog Saloon

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

Added by Jeremy D

Virginia City, Nevada

Piper's Opera House

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Virginia City, Nevada

Ponderosa Saloon

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

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Added by urvijabanerji

Virginia City, Nevada

The Washoe Club Haunted Museum & Saloon

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

Added by heshsf

Virginia City, Nevada

Comstock Cemeteries

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Virginia City, Nevada

St. Mary’s Art Center

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

Kerry Wolfe

Added by Kerry Wolfe

Sutro Tunnel

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

Added by heshsf

Carson City, Nevada

Nevada State Museum

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

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Genoa Bar & Saloon

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

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Goldfield, Nevada

Goldfield Hotel

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

Added by lasvegashoosier

Nye County, Nevada

Sailing Stones of Bonnie Claire Playa

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

CoolCrab

Added by CoolCrab

Carrara

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

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Tonopah, Nevada

U.S. 6 in Nevada

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

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Mud Slough

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

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Washoe County, Nevada

Massacre Rim Wilderness Study Area

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

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Gerlach, Nevada

Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge

One of the largest wildlife refuges in the contiguous 48 states, it was instrumental in preserving the pronghorn antelope from extinction.

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Winnemucca, Nevada

Royal Peacock Black Fire Opal Mine

Mine your own precious stones.

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Winnemucca, Nevada

Thousand Creek Gorge

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

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Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

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Added by WhiteTrashPeg

'Rhyolite's District of Shadows'

A land of debatable treasure.

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Albert Szukalski's Last Supper

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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Added by littlebrumble

Tom Kelly's Bottle House

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

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Added by littlebrumble

Rhyolite Ghost Town

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Angel's Ladies Brothel

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Added by zackofalltrades