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The Reno Arch over North Virginia Street in downtown Reno, Nevada, where the monthly Reno Antique Faire sets up. Photo by Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Antique Shopping in Reno, NV: A Local Guide to Shops, Markets, and Day Trips
Where to shop for antiques in Reno and Sparks: Midtown's antique malls, East Fourth Street, the Reno Antique Faire, estate sales, and the best day trips to Virginia City, Carson... Read more...
The Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield, Nevada, on an early twentieth-century real-photo postcard, showing the four-story stone and brick hotel at the height of the gold boom. Miami University Libraries postcard collection, no known copyright restrictions.
The Goldfield Hotel: History and Legends of Nevada's Most Haunted Hotel
In 1908 a mining camp that had been open desert six years earlier got a mahogany lobby, gold-leaf ceilings, and an elevator. The story of the Goldfield Hotel, the legends... Read more...
The Thunderbird Lodge on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe, mostly hidden by tall evergreens above the water. U.S. National Archives photograph by Ronda Kingsford, 2009; public domain.
Thunderbird Lodge and Captain George Whittell: The Eccentric Heir Who Kept Tahoe's East Shore Wild
On the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, a few miles south of Incline Village, a stone lodge sits on a rocky point so thoroughly screened by pines and granite that... Read more...
State Route 361 winding through the desert mountains between Luning and Gabbs, Nevada, the high-desert road country near the Lodi Hills. Photo by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Quartz Mountain, Nevada: The Lodi Hills Silver-Lead Camp Beside Broken Hills
Drive State Route 361 south toward Gabbs and the Lodi Hills come up low and pale on the horizon, treeless and the color of old bone. Tucked into them, two... Read more...
The ruins of the old roadside station at Warm Springs, Nye County, Nevada, along U.S. Route 6. Photo by Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Warm Springs, Nevada: The Hot Spring at the Crossroads of US 6 and the Extraterrestrial Highway
Fifty-odd miles east of Tonopah, on the long empty run of US Highway 6 toward Ely, a hot spring runs beside the road. This is Warm Springs, in Nye County,... Read more...
State Route 361 near Gabbs, Nevada, a highway through the high-desert country of west-central Nevada where the Broken Hills camp once stood. Photo by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0. This is a regional road view, not a photograph of the Broken Hills site.
Broken Hills, Nevada: The Silver-Lead Camp Two Englishmen Staked in 1913
In the high desert of west-central Nevada, in the range of hills that gave it its name, there is a ghost town called Broken Hills. It was one of the... Read more...
Weathered wooden and stone buildings in the near-ghost town of Ione, Nye County, Nevada, photographed in July 2014. Photo by Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ione, Nevada: The Silver Town That Refused to Die
Tucked into a high valley at the foot of the Shoshone Range in Nye County, central Nevada, Ione began in 1863 as a rush of silver prospectors and, by the... Read more...
The Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, in the empty northwestern Great Basin. Photo by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Hermit of Pinto Hot Springs: "Three Fingers" and the Black Rock Desert
Out past Gerlach, where the pavement gives way and the Black Rock Desert opens into one of the emptiest quarters of the Great Basin, there is a warm spring called... Read more...
Bowers Mansion in Washoe Valley, Nevada, photographed by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration in March 1940. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection (public domain).
Bowers Mansion: The Comstock's First Fortune in Washoe Valley
Bowers Mansion sits in Washoe Valley, roughly 20 miles south of Reno, a two-story stone house with a spring-fed pool in its backyard. It was built on the first great... Read more...
The Winters Mansion (Theodore Winters house) in Washoe Valley, Nevada, in a historical photograph. Courtesy Western Nevada Historic Photo Collection.
The Winters Mansion: Washoe Valley's White Mansion
Drive south from Reno on US 395 and the valley opens up beneath the Sierra front: Washoe Lake, the long shoulder of Slide Mountain, and, close beside the highway, a... Read more...
Main Street, general view of Aurora, Nevada, c. 1934 (public domain) - Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress
Aurora, Nevada: The Silver Boomtown Two States Claimed
Aurora, Nevada: a silver boomtown that was county seat of both Mono County, California and Esmeralda County, Nevada, Mark Twain's mining camp, and a ghost town today. Read more...
Desert sand hills near the Sink of Carson, Nevada, photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan during the 1860s Fortieth Parallel Survey, a public-domain view of the Churchill County desert country
Jessup, Nevada: A Short-Lived Camp in the Desert
Jessup, Nevada is the kind of place most travelers pass without knowing it was ever there. Drive Interstate 80 between Fernley and Lovelock and you cross the desert country of... Read more...