There’s something compelling about the ghost town of Rhyolite. It’s a place that seems to speak to many different people. Miners were once drawn to it by the promise of rich gold deposits, and, in ...

RHYOLITE - An icy wind sings through the empty eyes of the John S. Cook Bank building on the last Sunday of the year. Squint a little and imagine the three-story structure as it once was, with its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a young man, I recall watching the western series “Death Valley Days” with my grandmother. It turned out to be one of the ...

Rolling into the small town of Beatty, Nevada, is a strange experience. One of the few settlements on the edge of the brutal Death Valley, it appears as a welcome rise of gaudy lights after so many ...

A historic building burned down Saturday afternoon in the ghost town of Rhyolite, about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas in west-central Nevada. Caretaker Karl Olson said his travel trailer shook from ...

One of the most fascinating is Rhyolite in the Bullfrog Hills, about 190km northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern edge of Death Valley. This boomtown sprung to life after a couple of prospectors ...

A viral TikTok video shows cloaked figures on Google Earth near Rhyolite, Nevada. But the figures aren't people. They're part of an art exhibit called the Goldwell Open Air Museum. The cloaked statues ...

Jonah S. Blustain, BLM assistant field manager, will present a lecture, "More than a Ghost Town: Cultural Resource Management in the Phantom City of Rhyolite, Nevada" on Thursday, Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

From the left in the above photo is “Gasoline” Billy Kleer, 84; the Rev. Herschel Heisler, 80; Frederica Heisler, in her 70s; Bessie Moffat, 88; Louise Morrison, 77, Mary Thompson, 70, the town ...

As a young man, I recall watching the western series “Death Valley Days” with my grandmother. It turned out to be one of the longest-lived Western hits on television, running from 1952 to 1970, and ...