Abandoned Nevada: All That Glittered

A haunting photographic journey through Nevada’s glittering past and its ghost town remains.

Almost a century before Las Vegas became Nevada’s glittering jewel in the desert, the state was at the center of a history—making mining stampede: first silver and then gold, two of the Earth’s most sought—after precious metals. Towns and cities were established almost overnight and abandoned at lightning speed once the riches were exhausted. Miners and residents moved from one gold strike to the nex...