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Beatty, Nevada
Photo: Tahoenathan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rhyolite boomed after a 1905 gold strike, reaching several thousand residents before collapsing to about a thousand by 1910 and emptying in the 1920s. Its best-known survivor is the Bottle House, built in 1906 from tens of thousands of bottles because lumber was scarce, beside ruins of a bank, depot and other stone shells. The free Goldwell Open Air Museum of outdoor sculptures stands at the edge of the townsite.
Open-air site on NV-374 a few miles from Beatty; stay outside the ruins and watch for rattlesnakes and burros.
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