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8 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Virginia City, Nevada

Updated May 15, 2025

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Gold, Ghosts, and Gin: The Curious Spirits and Elaborate History of Virginia City

This one-time boomtown still oozes with the spirit of the Wild West.
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The Virginia City, Nevada, headquarters of E Clampus Vitus still stands in the middle of the town. According to officials, E Clampus Vitus is the only one of the remaining nineteenth-century fraternal orders that is growing in the twenty-first century.

The 19th-Century Secret Society Preserving the History of the West

The irreverent, all-male E Clampus Vitus commemorates overlooked people and events.
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