The prospect of winning big was even more alive in Nevada ... frontier towns that became their home bases, but now all that remains are a few decrepit structures. A new collection of photos ...

What is whispered in what they left behind? Even without placards flagging points of historical interest, ghost towns tell rich stories, and Nevada has quite a collection. In a single day’s ...

The Blood-Soaked Story Of Nelson, Nevada The land around ... After reading about ghost towns from around the United States, look through these stunning photos of China’s uninhabited ghost ...

Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. Most are vestiges of the region’s mining boom-and-bust era, which began with the discovery of gold near present-day Dayton in 1849 and continued into ...

Experts say that Nevada has up to 600 ghost towns throughout the state. Many have left no traces other than historical records and a set of coordinates leading to a barren patch of land with ...

Rhyolite was once the biggest town in southern Nevada. And today it’s a pretty extensive ghost town. Well known, as ghost towns go ... was restored by Paramount Pictures in January 1925 for ...

The one item that really sparked my interest was a map produced by the White Pine County Tourism & Recreation Board and Travel Nevada that listed more than 50 ghost towns in White Pine ...

Stan Paher, who wrote about Gold Point in his book, "Nevada Ghost Towns ... His hobby is touring ghost towns and he keeps a scrapbook full of 5,000 pictures. His interest borders on obsession.

Nevada’s quirkiest destinations aren’t found on the Strip or in downtown Reno. They’re scattered across ghost towns, highways and wide-open desert. That’s according to WorldAtlas ...

Nevada’s rural landscape is punctuated with ghost towns — communities built on the promise of mining riches, and then discarded when the dream either died or never quite became reality.

And Metropolis is not the only ghost town in the area. Finding these abandoned towns is such a local pastime that Nevada Magazine even maintains a list, many of which were former mining centers.