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 ...

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.

The state of Nevada is not just the bright lights of Vegas. It’s an otherworldly place with weird and supernatural experiences. With more ghost towns than inhabited ones and home to the infamous ...

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 ...

Empire, the abandoned mining town from "Nomadland," is a real-life place in the Nevada desert. Empire shut down in 2011 due to the recession and became a ghost town until 2016. Now a new mining ...

To begin this series on exploring ghost towns of the Old West, we traveled to Nevada, which boasts more than 600 known ghost towns and mining camps. With the idea that most families will be ...