The one item that really sparked my interest was a map produced by the White Pine County Tourism & Recreation Board and Travel Nevada that listed more than 50 ghost towns in White Pine ...

All ghost towns offer a glimpse into Nevada’s past ... as the area was then known, on the map. For the next several decades, starry-eyed prospectors from around the globe made their way ...

Take a look at an overhead map of Nevada, and you'll spot two standout ... Las Vegas and Reno are quite prominent, their larger city centers appearing as tangled messes of roadways contained ...