Roadside oddities39.3091° N, 119.6487° W
Virginia City, NV
Nevada’s oldest active Catholic church is a dramatic Gothic Revival landmark rebuilt after Virginia City’s 1875 fire, with a small museum and deep Comstock history.
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Suggest a stopGiant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
- Roadside oddities39.4936° N, 117.0799° W
Austin, NV
A three-story granite tower built in 1897 as a summer retreat resembles a ruined European castle standing alone above the Reese River Valley.
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- Roadside oddities36.8948° N, 116.8312° W
Rhyolite, NV
Albert Szukalski’s ghostly plaster figures recreate Leonardo’s Last Supper in the open Mojave and became the sculpture that launched Goldwell Open Air Museum.
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- Roadside oddities40.6600° N, 118.1330° W
Imlay, NV
Frank Van Zant spent years building a visionary complex of concrete, bottles, scrap metal, statues, and structures around a trailer in the desert.
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- Roadside oddities36.8976° N, 116.8295° W
Rhyolite, NV
Built in 1906 from thousands of discarded glass bottles set in mortar, this preserved miner’s house turns boomtown trash into one of Rhyolite’s strangest structures.
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- Roadside oddities36.3893° N, 115.3202° W
North Las Vegas, NV
A protected desert landscape preserving one of the Southwest’s major Pleistocene fossil records, including mammoths and other Ice Age animals.
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- Roadside oddities39.0370° N, 114.8474° W
Ely, NV
Six enormous beehive-shaped stone ovens once produced charcoal for White Pine County smelters and now stand intact in a remote state park.
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