Some were abandoned and left to the desert ... When pioneer Abner Blackburn struck gold in the western Great Basin Desert in 1849, Nevada’s mining history began. Ten years later, the Comstock ...

Not every town gets to stick around forever. Some start with a bang—gold rush fever, a mining boom, a railroad deal—only to ...

With its miles of breathtaking desert landscapes and majestic mountain ranges, Nevada is a gorgeous state ... be complete without visiting one of its abandoned beauties. On the way to the next ...

Three days later, Booth’s abandoned Honda CRV was found in the desert near Ely, Nevada, four hours north of Las Vegas. But the couple was nowhere to be found. Missing Persons detectives ...

Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines — mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways. But those mines from Nevada’s olden days are attracting a modern-day ...

This is in the western Nevada desert, a long drive from where we'd seen the last of the Truckee River, in the summer of 2001. The abandoned wooden trestle is one of about six we saw that day.