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| | Virginia City is a veritable and visitable time capsule. It is open year round but it is lost in time. Virginia city is a tiny mountain town clinging to the deserted mountain slopes of the Sierra Nevadas. It was very briefly the epicenter of the gold rush, a summer home to Lady Luck and Fashionable Fortune, the "Bonanza Kings" came paupers and left in private train cars, mansions dotting the... |
| For a week every summer, the deserted moonscape of Black Rock Desert becomes Black Rock City, home to the incomparable Burning Man arts and culture festival. During this week nearly 40,000 hippies, fire spinners, tribe followers, alternative suburbanites, average Joes, Googlites and Appletons make a massive exodus to this lifeless, isolated environment at the foothills of the Black Rock Mountain.... |  |
| Las Vegas is a huge, sprawling city in the Nevada desert. It's one of the fastest growing cities in the world but for the visitor a trip to Vegas is usually a trip to "the Strip", about 20 long blocks of neon lights, public drinking and casinos. The famous strip clubs are off the main drag. And everything is designed and themed. It's sort of like Disneyland for naughty adults. Some people can't... |  |
| This desert non-metropolis often gets a bad rap. Reno 911 and multiple Sister Act movies have not painted the world's "Biggest Little City" in the most favorable of lights, neon or otherwise. Reno is a conundrum, a city-village that celebrates its quirky size and paradoxical position as a Western country town and ever growing urban locale. A huge downtown beautification project has turned the... |  |
| Stateline is a little ski city on the south side of Lake Tahoe. Just over the border from the California city South Lake Tahoe, stateline's got the casinos. |
| Fallon, Nevada is known as the "Oasis of Nevada" and is famous for their Hearts o' Gold Cantaloupe. This small town is a farming community with many farms, ranches and dairies dotting the landscape. Fallon has the largest Naval Air Base for Carrier Group Training in the world and is the home of the Top Gun Fighter Pilot squadron. |
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