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Odd & Fun Roadside Nevada
Ethel
M Chocolates Factory and Cactus Garden - 2 Cactus Garden Dr., Henderson,
Nevada - view the Living Machine™ as part of the self-guided Cactus
Garden tour. The Living Machine™ is an acre of waste-consuming ecologies
in tanks, marshes and reed beds transforming wastewater into water clean
enough to be used for landscape irrigation.
Western
Folklife Center - Fifth and Railroad streets, Elko, Nevada - best
known for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Gypsum Cave - Jarbidge, Nevada - Man probably made use of the cave beginning
about 3,000 B.C., long after the ground sloths had abandoned it.
Comstock Lode -Virginia City, Nevada - richest known U.S. deposit of silver
ore discovered ended in 1898.
The Castle - Taylor Street at B Street -Virginia City, Nevada - Castle
was built by Robert N. Graves, superintendent of the Empire Mine. The
home, copied after a castle in Normandy, France, took five years to build
and complete; construction was started in 1863 and completed in 1868.
The Castle was one of the finest mansions in the West during its heyday.
Bowers Mansion Museum - Highway 395 South at Highway 429, Carson City,
Nevada - Silver baron's abode
Hoover Dam - US HWY 93, Boulder City, Nevada -
Virginia
& Truckee - Washington St & "F" St, Virginia City,
Nevada - 35-minute steam train tour
Mackay
Mansion - 129 South D Street, Virginia City, Nevada - Built in 1859
by George Hearst, the Mackay Mansion is the former residence of Comstock
King John Mackay and is now a National Historic Landmark open for tours
year-round.
Piper's
Opera House - Virginia City, Nevada - Long considered one of our nation's
most famous performance venues and one of the most significant vintage
theatres in America. This opera house has shared a special relationship
with both national and community audiences since 1863
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