Dec 11
I love ghost towns and Nevada is full of them, left over from the gold mining days when towns sprang up almost overnight and then were abandonned when the gold was gone.
A good example is Rhyolite, famous for the ‘The Bottle House’, a house built from thousands of beer bottles by Tom Kelly in 1906. You can read all about the recently completed restoration of this historic landmark on Suzy McCoy’s dedicated site.
For an atmospheric tour of several western ghost towns watch the video below with a great accompanying guitar track, Wild West Spirits:
