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The town of Rhyolite, Nevada, was a mining town that grew up and then died in the early 1900's. It is in the Bullfrog Hills northwest of Las Vegas. Gold was discovered there and the town boomed. At its peak, around 1907, it had a population of 10,000 with a railroad station and fifty saloons, but by 1920 after the mines ceased production there were only 14 residents. The town is now a tourist attraction with its ruined buildings and has become a site for weird open-air sculptures.

Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town on the California and Nevada border. It flourished during a gold rush in the late 1800's but declined and became a ghost town in the 1920's. This was the Overbury Bank Building in Rhyolite's heyday with the school behind it.

Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town on the California and Nevada border. It flourished during a gold rush in the late 1800's but declined and became a ghost town in the 1920's. Some of the old buildings are visible in the background.

Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town on the California and Nevada border. It flourished during a gold rush in the late 1800's but declined and became a ghost town in the 1920's. This was the Overbury Bank Building in Rhyolite's heyday with the school behind it.

Rhyolite is an old mining town on the California and Nevada border near Beatty, Nevada. It is a popular visitor's attraction not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures.

Rhyolite is an old mining town on the California and Nevada border near Beatty, Nevada. It is a popular visitor's attraction not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures.

Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town on the California and Nevada border. It flourished during a gold rush in the late 1800's but declined and became a ghost town in the 1920's. The town is visited now not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures, some of which are shown in the insets here and in the previous photo. This is the train station, one of the best-preserved buildings in Rhyolite.

Rhyolite is an old mining town on the California and Nevada border near Beatty, Nevada. It is a popular visitor's attraction not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures.

Rhyolite, Nevada, is a ghost town on the California and Nevada border. It flourished during a gold rush in the late 1800's but declined and became a ghost town in the 1920's. This was the Cook Bank Building in Rhyolite's heyday. The town is visited now not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures, some of which are shown in the insets.

Rhyolite is an old mining town on the California and Nevada border near Beatty, Nevada. It is a popular visitor's attraction not only for its ruins but for its strange sculptures.

Here's another photo from the Nevada ghost town of Rhyolite, this of the remains of the Overbury Bank building.

The ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada is just across the border from California in an area known as the Bullfrog Hills. Rhyolite is a former mining town and this is the old train station on the now-abandoned Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad.

The Nevada ghost town of Rhyolite was established in 1905 during a gold rush and lasted only until 1920 when the richest ore was exhausted. It is about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas and a major tourist attraction with an outdoor sculpture park near the entrance to the town. This group of statues is one of the most notable and is part of grouping that includes a ghost with a bicycle and another with an artist's palette.