Picture a town that exploded from nothing to thousands of people in just three years, only to vanish like a desert mirage. Rhyolite, Nevada, was that place, a Wild West boomtown born from gold fever ...

A gruesome discovery of more than 300 piles of cremated human remains have been found around 50 miles from Las Vegas in the ...

These Five Former Boomtowns Invite You To Step Into the State’s Mining History On the northern edge of the Mojave Desert sits the remnants of a former boomtown. There, visitors are greeted by the ...

Isolation has been an undercurrent of the Netflix series Stranger Things since its 2016 debut. Although the action ostensibly ...

Long before Southern Nevada built its winding highways, desert tortoises roamed freely without consequence. For these federally protected animals, crossing the street without a dedicated path could ...