Abandoned in Nevada

Little is left of this formerly bustling railroad junction on the Transcontinental Railroad.

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

Well-preserved ruins in the Pine Grove Hills of western Nevada.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.