05 Oct Reno Mercantile Building
Built in 1872, the Reno Mercantile Building is Reno’s oldest commercial building, having survived both the 1873 and the 1879 fires that destroyed most of the downtown business district....
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05 Oct Spirit Cave
Spirit Cave is found high up in the desert hills north of Grimes Point, some 75 miles east of Reno. During excavations in 1940 the Spirit Cave Mummy was discovered....
04 Oct Pershing Co. Courthouse
A rivalry with neighboring Humboldt County prompted the commissioners of Pershing County to plan a courthouse in Lovelock that would put that of their northern neighbor to shame....
28 Sep Fly Geyser
Located on a gated parcel of private property within the million-acre Black Rock Desert, Fly Geyser was created accidentally in 1964 from a geothermal test well inadequately capped....
28 Sep Neon Boneyard
Las Vegas casinos have donated many of their older iconic signs to the Neon Museum. The museum's "Neon Boneyard" is a two-acre site enclosing more than 200 historic, non-restored signs....
28 Sep Lehman Caves, Great Basin National Park
Water, geologic forces, and climatic changes combined to form Lehman Caves over the millennia. Really a single cave, Lehman Caves is located within Great Basin National Park....