15 Oct Frenchman Flat
On May 8, 1953, a B-50 bomber dropped a 27-kiloton nuclear device from 19,000 feet. Detonating at 2,323 feet, the bomb blew sections of the trestle from its foundation and bent the girders....
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14 Oct Red Rock Canyon
Travel 17 mi from the neon canyons of Las Vegas and you’ll find the red sandstone formations of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Visited by more than a million people yearly....
13 Oct Old Lander Co. Courthouse
Lander County’s courthouse moved around with the population. The first was in Jacobsville. But then a newly-discovered vein of silver in Austin prompted the county to move its seat to Austin....
13 Oct Humboldt Co. Courthouse
Humboldt County moved its county seat from Unionville to Winnemucca in 1873. In 1874 the first courthouse was constructed. It was destroyed by fire in 1918, and the present structure was built. ...
12 Oct Searchlight
Between 1907 and 1910 the gold mines of Searchlight produced $7 million, but today it is best known as the home town of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid....
12 Oct Donner Summit Railroad Tunnels
After two years of construction the Central Pacific Railroad sent its first passenger trains through the Summit Tunnel at Donner Pass in November of 1867. The tunnel was the most difficult engineering challenge of the Transcontinental Railroad....
11 Oct Fourth Ward School
Virginia City's Fourth Ward School opened in 1877. The Fourth Ward was the largest and most advanced of several schools in the district. It is also the only one to survive....
11 Oct The McGill Drug Store Museum,
and the McGill Club Saloon
The McGill Drug Store was an operating drug store from 1915 until 1979, when it closed, as did the town’s largest employer. It sat there until the mid-1990s, when it was opened as a museum....
10 Oct Pictograph Ledge
The rock art sites around the Las Vegas Valley were located along prehistoric game trails leading to water holes, near hunting blinds, or in narrow gorges where game could be ambushed. ...
09 Oct Goldfield Hotel
The Goldfield Hotel opened its doors in 1908, just a couple of years before the town's mining boom was over. It was called in its day “the gem of the desert.” ...
09 Oct Esmeralda Co. Courthouse
Goldfield's Esmeralda County Courthouse opened for business in 1908. Esmeralda County stretches for some 3588 sq. miles, but contains fewer than 1262 people (2006). ...
09 Oct Fremont Street Experience
Downtown Las Vegas' Fremont Street Experience offers hourly light shows each evening, with more than 12 million LED modules and a half-million watt sound system....
09 Oct Hoover Dam
From the platform below Hoover Dam its imposing 726 ft height, the highest in the country, is evident. The structure extends 1,244 ft across Black Canyon and is 660 ft thick at its base....
08 Oct Two Casinos in Ely
When the Hotel Nevada was completed in 1929, it was claimed to be the tallest building in Nevada. Rooms rented for $1.50 and up, "All with private toilet; 85% with private bath."...
08 Oct Willow Creek
Fifteen miles south of Ely, the Willow Creek Trading Post and General Store has acres full of rusting machinery and antique cars. They also have a herd of buffalo....
07 Oct Chollar Mine
With its riches first located in 1859, the Chollar Mine (later the Chollar-Potosi) was one of the leading producers on the Comstock. ...
07 Oct Bellagio Las Vegas
For the lobby of the Bellagio on the Vegas strip, artist Dale Chihuly in 1998 crafted the "Fiori di Como," a ceiling installation made of 2,000 hand-blown glass pieces....
06 Oct Lamoille Canyon
Glacier-sculpted Lamoille Canyon is the largest valley in Elko County’s Ruby Mountains. Approximately 12 miles long, the canyon is only twenty minutes from Elko on Lamoille Canyon Road....
06 Oct Toquima Cave
Toquima Cave, located in the mountains east of Austin, was used for religious purposes by Native Americans for thousands of years. The pictographs in the cave are unique to the region....
05 Oct Eureka Opera House
The interior of the Eureka Opera House includes a well-preserved olio, or stage curtain, featuring advertisements for local businesses. The institution dates to 1874....
05 Oct St. Mary’s in the Mountains
St. Mary's in the Mountains in Virginia City was rebuilt after the great fire of 1875. The interior features redwood columns and gothic rafters, original alters, pews, and confession box....
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....
05 Oct Reno RR Trench Archaeology
Excavation in 2004 for the Reno railroad trench uncovered a Native American village site north of the Truckee River. ...
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....