The map lists Caliente, Panaca and Pioche as ghost towns, and while I actually never been on state Route 56 past the Utah/Nevada border, I knew all three of those towns have some significant ...

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 ...