An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

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

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

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

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

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

Once a staging site for World War II munitions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

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

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.