repopulated and abandoned one last time before Lake Mead washed over in 1938 what would become a ghost town unlike any other in the state of Nevada. Driven out of Nevada Most ghost towns in Nevada ...

While Nevada boasts bustling destinations like Las Vegas and underrated cities with less chaotic gambling scenes like Reno, it also holds some of the country's best-preserved ghost towns.

Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. Most are vestiges of the region’s mining boom-and-bust era, which began with the discovery of gold near present-day Dayton in 1849 and continued into ...