68 haunted destinations cataloged across Nevada, spanning 16 counties. The collection features haunted hotel, museum, and haunted dining — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Nelson, NV
Nelson is a privately preserved Nevada ghost town in Eldorado Canyon, 45 minutes south of Las Vegas. Built around the Techatticup Mine, discovered in 1861, the camp produced some of the richest gold ore in the early Nevada Territory. Nelson is preserved by owners Tony and Bobbie Werly, who acquired the property in 1994.
Goodsprings, NV
The Pioneer Saloon in Goodsprings, Nevada, was built in 1913 by Clark County commissioner George Fayle and is one of the oldest continuously operating saloons in the state. It is closely associated with actress Carole Lombard, whose 1942 plane crash at nearby Mount Potosi was coordinated, in part, from the building.
Beatty, NV
Rhyolite, Nevada was a Bullfrog Mining District boom town that grew from a two-tent prospecting camp in early 1905 to the third-largest city in Nevada by 1908, with electric lights, concrete sidewalks, an opera house, and three banks. The 1907 financial panic and exhaustion of the gold ore led to a rapid collapse, and the town was effectively abandoned by 1916.
Virginia City, NV
The Storey County Courthouse was built in 1876 — replacing a predecessor lost to the catastrophic Virginia City fire of 1875 — at a cost of $117,000, making it the most expensive courthouse built in Nevada during the nineteenth century. It remains the state's oldest continuously operating courthouse. The building's most distinctive feature is the unblindfolded Lady of Justice above the entrance, crafted in New York and installed in 1877.
Las Vegas, NV
The Bellagio opened in 1998 as a $1.6 billion luxury resort on the site of the Dunes Hotel, one of the Strip's original properties. The Dunes operated from 1955 until its closure in 1993, followed by a televised implosion on October 27, 1993. Steve Wynn built the Bellagio on the cleared lot, which opened with its iconic fountain displays on the exact location where the Dunes once stood.
Las Vegas, NV
Lester 'Benny' Binion opened Binion's Horseshoe at 128 E. Fremont Street on August 14, 1951, after relocating from Dallas following a 1953 federal conviction for tax evasion and an earlier murder conviction. He created the World Series of Poker in 1970. His son Lonnie 'Ted' Binion was found dead on September 17, 1998; two people were convicted of his murder in 2000, but the Nevada Supreme Court reversed those convictions in 2003, and both were acquitted of murder at retrial in 2004.
Virginia City, NV
The Bonanza Saloon was constructed in 1870 during Virginia City's peak mining prosperity, when the town supported over 100 saloons following the Big Bonanza discovery. The building has hosted numerous businesses over 150 years and remains a prominent fixture on C Street in Virginia City's historic downtown.
Virginia City, NV
The Bucket of Blood Saloon has operated on C Street in Virginia City since 1876, rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1875 destroyed the previous structure. The name is attributed to the frequency of violent altercations during the Comstock mining boom. Archaeological work beginning in 1997 established that the modern building sits above the site of the Boston Saloon, owned from 1864 by William Brown — documented as the only saloon in the 19th-century Old West owned by an African American.
Virginia City, NV
The Fourth Ward School was dedicated on November 28, 1876, during the peak of the Comstock Lode silver boom that briefly made Virginia City one of the wealthiest cities in the American West. Architect C.M. Bennett designed the four-story Second Empire building with a distinctive mansard roof; it could accommodate more than 1,000 students and was among the most sophisticated school buildings in the region. The school closed in 1936 and reopened as a museum in 1986.
Virginia City, NV
The building at 76 North C Street in Virginia City, Nevada has operated as a saloon and entertainment venue under various names since the Comstock Lode era. Known at different periods as the Comstock House Hotel, Kitty's Longbranch, and the Red Dog Saloon, the property has been continuously occupied since the mid-19th century and sits in one of the American West's best-preserved Victorian mining towns.
Virginia City, NV
George Hearst built this three-story Italianate structure in 1859 as offices for his Comstock mining operations. In 1871 he sold it to John Mackay, one of the four Silver Kings who struck the Big Bonanza vein. The mansion is the only Virginia City building documented to have survived both the 1863 and 1875 fires and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961.
Virginia City, NV
German immigrant John Piper built Virginia City's first opera house in 1863 after arriving during the Comstock Lode rush. Two fires destroyed the original buildings — in October 1875 and March 1883. The current structure opened March 6, 1885, and has hosted Mark Twain, John Philip Sousa, Lillie Langtry, and Al Jolson. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
Virginia City, NV
The Silver Queen Hotel opened in 1876 in Virginia City, Nevada, making it the oldest continuously operating hotel in town. Built during the height of the Comstock Lode boom, the building survived the decline of the silver district and became a historic landmark on C Street. The hotel is best known to visitors for its 16-foot painting of a woman composed of 3,261 Morgan silver dollars.
Virginia City, NV
Silver Terrace Cemeteries were established by 1867 as Virginia City's principal burial ground, organized into eleven distinct sections by fraternal order and religious affiliation. The thirty-acre site holds hundreds of people who died during the Comstock Lode era — miners, merchants, and their families — drawn from dozens of countries of origin. It is documented as one of the finest Victorian garden cemeteries in the state during the boom years.
Virginia City, NV
St. Mary Louise Hospital opened on March 6, 1876 in Virginia City, Nevada on land donated by Mary Louise Mackay, wife of silver king John Mackay. Built by the Daughters of Charity in 1875, the four-story brick structure served Comstock Lode miners and their families through the boom years. The Daughters of Charity left the Comstock in 1897; the hospital operated under Storey County until closure around 1940. In 1964, Father Meinecke and Louise Curran converted the building to an arts center now celebrating its 62nd year.
Virginia City, NV
The Sugar Loaf Mountain Motel sits on South C Street in Virginia City, the Comstock-era boomtown above Reno. The motel occupies a 19th-century former miners' residence — local accounts describe an 1870s boarding-house origin — and it leans into the town's haunted reputation, keeping a guest 'ghost log' in each room and promoting a 'Doll Room' where unexplained activity is most often reported.
Virginia City, NV
The Washoe Club opened on B Street in Virginia City, Nevada on June 1, 1875 as a private social institution serving Comstock Lode mining magnates and visiting dignitaries. The original location burned in the Great Fire of October 1875; the club rebuilt in 1876 above a tavern on C Street, where it operated until 1897. The building today functions as a museum and saloon.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPReno, NV
Hillside Cemetery is one of Reno's oldest cemeteries, established in the 1870s as a resting place for many of the region's pioneer-era settlers. It is a recurring stop in Reno ghost-tour and haunted-history coverage.
Reno, NV
W.J. Marsh built the Lake Mansion in 1877 at the corner of Virginia and California Streets. Myron Lake, widely credited as one of Reno's founders through his toll bridge franchise, purchased it in 1879. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, relocated to the Reno Convention Center grounds in 1971, and moved to its current address at 250 Court Street in 2004.
Reno, NV
The Levy House at 111-121 California Avenue in Reno, Nevada is a Classical Revival house built in 1906 for William Levy, a merchant and mining businessman. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as a high-quality example of the style and for its association with Levy. The building was rotated 90 degrees and repositioned on its lot around 1940, and from 2011 to 2024 it housed Sundance Books and Music.
Reno, NV
Morrill Hall is the oldest building on the University of Nevada, Reno campus, built in 1886. The brick building anchors the historic core of the campus and now houses university offices. It is a fixture of UNR's campus ghost lore.
Reno, NV
Nevada's first state psychiatric facility opened in 1881 on a 92-acre campus near Reno. From 1882 to 1949 it buried at least 767 patients in a field with shallow graves marked only by numbered tin plates. Decades later a utility pipeline was installed directly through the burial ground, and the disturbed area became a playground. In the 1970s children playing on the grounds found human bones. A public memorial obelisk listing all 767 known names was dedicated on January 12, 2011, on the grounds of Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services.
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Reno, NV
Built in 1910–11 by architect Frederic DeLongchamps at a cost of $250,000, the Washoe County Courthouse replaced an earlier courthouse on the same site and served as the primary legal venue for Reno's 'Divorce Capital of the World' era. In 1931 alone, more than 4,800 divorces were processed through this building. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Reno, NV
The Riverside Hotel is a seven-story Art Deco building completed in 1927 on a Truckee River lodging site that dates to the 1860s. It was developed by Nevada financier George Wingfield and designed by architect Frederic DeLongchamps, and it was central to Reno's decades as the 'Divorce Capital of the World.' The hotel closed in 1987 and was redeveloped as the Riverside Artist Lofts; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Reno, NV
Roy Frisch was a cashier at George Wingfield's Riverside Bank in Reno and lived at 247 Court Street, a Queen Anne house built in 1908. On the night of March 22, 1934, he left to see a film at the Majestic Theater and was never seen again, days before he was to testify as a key government witness in the mail-fraud trial of William Graham and James McKay. He was declared legally dead in 1941; the case remains unsolved.
Reno, NV
The Brewer's Cabinet is a craft brewpub at 475 South Arlington Avenue in Reno's Riverwalk District, operating in a building that dates to 1930. It is included on the Riverwalk District's ghost-walk route as a haunted stop.
Carson City, NV
Duane L. Bliss built the mansion in 1879, the year it became the largest and most modern private home in Nevada. Bliss had amassed a fortune supplying Comstock Lode mines with timber from Lake Tahoe sawmills he controlled, and later built railroads to move that lumber. The 8,500-square-foot, 15-room Italianate structure was the first home in Nevada entirely piped for gas lighting and was constructed entirely of clear lumber and square nails. It sits across the street from the current Nevada Governor's Mansion.
Carson City, NV
The Brewery Arts Center occupies the former Carson Brewing Company building in downtown Carson City, a two-story stone structure dating to 1864 (with a brewery on the site from about 1860). Under the Carson Brewing name from 1900, it produced Tahoe Beer and operated as one of Nevada's longest-running breweries until it closed in 1948. After serving as the Nevada Appeal newspaper office, the building was acquired by an artist collective in 1975 and developed into a performing-arts center.
Carson City, NV
Abraham Curry built his Carson City home in 1871, two years before his death in 1873. Curry was arguably the most consequential figure in early Nevada history — he laid out the town of Carson City in 1858, donated the land for the state capitol, supervised construction of the Nevada State Prison and the US Mint, and served as the first warden of the prison. The one-story masonry house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
Carson City, NV
Built in 1863 by Carson City businessman Gregory A. Sears, the house at 311 W Third Street was purchased in 1868 by George Washington Gale Ferris Sr., who owned it until 1890. Ferris Sr. was an agriculturist credited with importing eastern trees throughout Carson City and planting early plantings on the Nevada State Capitol grounds. His son, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., lived in the home from 1868 until 1877 when he left for school; he later designed the Ferris wheel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Carson City, NV
The Nevada Governor's Mansion at 606 Mountain Street in Carson City has been the official residence of Nevada's governors since 1909. Designed by Reno architect George A. Ferris in Classical Revival style, the mansion was authorized by State Assembly Bill 10 (the Mansion Bill) in 1907 and completed in 1909. Acting Governor Denver Dickerson and his family moved in that July.
Carson City, NV
The Carson City Mint building was completed December 13, 1869, and opened to the public January 6, 1870. Its first superintendent was Abraham Curry — the man who had founded Carson City, sold the government the building site, and won the construction contract. Coin Press No. 1 struck its first silver dollars on February 4, 1870. The mint operated until 1893; the building was converted to the Nevada State Museum in 1941 with a $5,000 purchase and federal surplus funds.
Carson City, NV
Nevada State Prison opened in 1862 as the territory's first prison facility. Over 150 years it held at least 48 documented executions by hanging, firing squad, lethal gas, and lethal injection. It is most historically significant as the site of the world's first execution by lethal gas — Gee Jon, a 28-year-old Chinese immigrant convicted of murder, executed on February 8, 1924 in a converted former barbershop. The prison closed in May 2012 and is now operated as a museum and heritage site by the Nevada State Prison Preservation Society.
Las Vegas, NV
The Aladdin Hotel opened in Las Vegas in 1966 as a major resort and casino property. The hotel underwent renovations and continued operations until its closure in 2003. Planet Hollywood Entertainment acquired the property in 2005, completely renovating and reopening it in 2007 as Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. The 7th floor Panorama Suite emerged as the property's most paranormally active location during Aladdin Hotel operations.
Las Vegas, NV
Caesars Palace opened on August 5, 1966, as a $24 million landmark resort developed by Jay Sarno. It was one of the first Las Vegas properties to incorporate a fully developed Roman Empire theme and the largest hotel built as a single unified project in Nevada at the time, featuring 700 rooms across 14 crescent-shaped floors.
Las Vegas, NV
The Flamingo Las Vegas opened on December 26, 1946, under the direction of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, making it the oldest continuously operating resort on the Las Vegas Strip. Siegel was murdered in Beverly Hills in June 1947, just months after the casino began turning a profit. The original hotel cost far more than projected — early estimates of $1.5 million ballooned to roughly $6 million — and the syndicate's patience ran out before Siegel could see his vision fully realized.
Las Vegas, NV
On November 21, 1980, an electrical fire in the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino's deli restaurant killed 85 people and injured more than 700 — the deadliest disaster in Nevada history and the third-deadliest hotel fire in American history. Most victims died from smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning on upper floors. The fire directly prompted Nevada to mandate fire sprinklers in all public buildings.
Las Vegas, NV
The Las Vegas Academy of the Arts occupies the original Las Vegas High School building at 315 South 7th Street, completed in 1930. Designed by Reno architects George A. Ferris and Son in an 'Aztec Moderne' style blending Art Deco and Southwestern motifs, the campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and represents downtown Las Vegas's best surviving example of 1930s civic architecture.
Las Vegas, NV
Completed in 1933, the Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse at 300 E Stewart Ave hosted the seventh of fourteen national Kefauver Committee hearings on November 15, 1950, the first time most Americans saw organized crime's grip on the country aired on television. The federal government sold the building to the City of Las Vegas for $1 in 2000, requiring restoration for cultural use; the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement opened on February 14, 2012.
Las Vegas, NV
Cyril S. Wengert, a prominent Las Vegas businessman, built the Wengert Mansion at 600 E Charleston Blvd in 1938. Zak Bagans acquired the 11,000-square-foot property in 2017 specifically to house his paranormal artifact collection and opened The Haunted Museum in 2017. USA Today named it the #1 Most Haunted Destination in America.
Tonopah, NV
The Belvada Hotel occupies the 1906 State Bank and Trust Company Building on Main Street in Tonopah, designed in a Classical Revival / Beaux-Arts style by architect George E. Holesworth. Just months after it opened, the 1907 financial panic forced the bank to close, and its owner, Thomas Rickey, was indicted for embezzlement. The building later served as the Belvada Apartments, stood vacant and near demolition, and reopened in 2020 as a hotel restored by Fred and Nancy Cline, the owners of the nearby Mizpah Hotel.
Tonopah, NV
The Clown Motel opened in 1985 when Leroy and Leona David built it as a tribute to their father Clarence David, an avid clown collector buried in the adjacent Old Tonopah Cemetery. Bob Perchetti operated the property from 1995 to 2017, then the Mehar family purchased it in 2019 and expanded the clown collection to over 4,000 pieces.
Tonopah, NV
The Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada was constructed in 1905 at a cost of $200,000, financed by mining magnates George Wingfield, George S. Nixon, Cal Brougher, and Bob Govan. The reinforced concrete and stone structure was Nevada's tallest building until 1927. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, fell dormant in 1999, and reopened in August 2011 after a $4 million restoration by Fred and Nancy Cline.
Tonopah, NV
The Old Tonopah Cemetery was established on May 7, 1901 with the burial of John Randel Weeks and remained in active use until April 1911, when the growing town required a new site. Nearly 300 people are buried here, including victims of a pneumonia outbreak in the early 1900s and fourteen miners killed in the February 23, 1911 Tonopah-Belmont Mine Fire.
Tonopah, NV
The Mizpah Hotel opened in 1907 in the silver-mining boomtown of Tonopah, Nevada. With five Victorian-styled floors it was the tallest building in Nevada for the next 25 years, featuring all-electric lighting, steam heat, and the first electric elevator in the western United States.
Tonopah, NV
On May 19, 1900, Jim Butler's silver discovery on what would become the Tonopah Mining Company's property launched what boosters called the 'Queen of the Silver Camps.' The town reached a peak population of around 20,000 in the 1910s and the mines produced over $121 million in silver by the time production wound down. Two fires — one at the Belmont Mine in 1911 and another in 1942 — killed workers. The Tonopah Historic Mining Park now preserves 100 acres of the original mine site, including shafts, a cave-in, and an illuminated 500-foot stope.
Tonopah, NV
The Tonopah Liquor Company building was constructed in 1906 by Col. Jack Gunn, Tom Griffin, and Dave Holland, who purchased the land and an existing wooden saloon from 'Uncle' Hank Knight in 1905 before completing the stone structure the following year. Designed in Neoclassical Revival style, it is one of only four remaining stone buildings from Tonopah's early development and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Genoa, NV
The Genoa Bar opened in 1853 as Livingston's Exchange, eleven years before Nevada became a state, and is recognized as the oldest continuously operating bar in Nevada. Renamed Fettic's Exchange in 1884, it survived Prohibition by operating as a soda-fountain front and retains a 19th-century interior, including a rare diamond-dust mirror.
Genoa, NV
Completed in 1865, the Genoa courthouse is the oldest standing courthouse in Nevada. The Nevada territorial legislature authorized Douglas County to fund it in 1864; mining superintendent T. J. Furbee designed it, and contractors Lawrence Gilman and Rufus Adams built it for under $20,000. It served as the courthouse until the county seat moved to Minden in 1916, became a school, and reopened as a museum in 1969.
Genoa, NV
Mormon Station was built in 1851 as a trading post on the Carson Route of the California Trail, supplying emigrants crossing the Sierra Nevada. It marked the site of Nevada's first permanent non-native settlement, which grew into Genoa. The original structure burned in a 1910 fire; the present park preserves a reconstructed stockade and trading post, operated by Nevada State Parks.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPPioche, NV
Boot Hill is the oldest cemetery in Pioche, Nevada, established in the early 1870s as the silver-mining boomtown earned its reputation as one of the most violent communities in the American West. Town records indicate 72 men were shot, stabbed, or otherwise killed before anyone in Pioche died of natural causes.
Pioche, NV
Lincoln County contracted T. Dimmock and Thomas Keefe to design an Italianate courthouse in Pioche in 1871, initially budgeted at $26,000. Construction mismanagement and compounding interest drove the county's total obligation to over $800,000, a debt not fully retired until 1938 — the same year a replacement courthouse was built. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and restored in the 1970s as a local history museum.
Pioche, NV
The Overland Hotel & Saloon sits on a Main Street site in Pioche, Nevada that has held a boarding house and bar since the early 1900s; the current building dates to 1948. Pioche was one of the most violent silver-mining camps of the 1870s Nevada boom, and local accounts hold that dozens of men were buried in the town's Boot Hill cemetery before anyone in the camp died of natural causes.
Ely, NV
The Hotel Nevada opened on July 7, 1929 in downtown Ely as a six-story building that was the tallest in Nevada until 1931. A landmark stop on U.S. Route 50, it hosted travelers and celebrity guests including Mickey Rooney, Gary Cooper, and Lyndon B. Johnson, with a sidewalk walk-of-fame marking notable visitors. It continues to operate as a hotel-casino.
Ely, NV
The Nevada Northern Railway was built in the early 1900s by the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company to haul ore from mines west of Ely. The line and its East Ely yard, shops, and depot are preserved largely intact and operated as a museum, recognized as a National Historic Landmark. Original steam and diesel locomotives still run on the route between Ely and McGill.
Eureka, NV
The Eureka Opera House was built in 1880, replacing an Odd Fellows hall that had burned the previous year, and served the silver-mining town of Eureka as a cultural center. It became the Eureka Theater movie house from 1915 to 1958, fell into disuse, and was restored in 1993 by the Commission for Cultural Affairs. It now operates as a convention center and auditorium seating roughly 150 to 300 people.
Eureka, NV
The Jackson House opened in 1877 in the silver-mining town of Eureka, built by Irish immigrant Andrew Jackson to serve the boomtown's wealthier residents. The two-story brick hotel advertised itself as the only fireproof hotel in Nevada — a claim tested when fire swept downtown Eureka and the building survived. Renamed the Brown Hotel in 1907, it was restored in 1981 and again called the Jackson House.
Gold Hill, NV
The Gold Hill Hotel in Storey County, Nevada is recognized as the oldest hotel in the state, with the original stone Riesen House structure under construction by July 1861. The property sits within the Comstock Historic District above workings of the Yellow Jacket Mine, where a fire on April 7, 1869 killed dozens of miners.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPGold Hill, NV
On April 7, 1869, fire broke out at the 800-foot level of the Yellow Jacket Mine in Gold Hill, Nevada, killing at least 35 miners in what remains Nevada's deadliest mining disaster. The fire spread to two adjacent mines — the Crown Point and Kentuck — before oxygen was cut off by sealing the shafts three days later. Several bodies were never recovered. The Yellow Jacket was one of the richest mines on the Comstock Lode, and the disaster prompted the first serious discussion of mine safety legislation in Nevada.
Goldfield, NV
Built in 1907–1908 at a cost exceeding $300,000, the Goldfield Hotel opened as Nevada's most luxurious property during the state's last significant gold rush. Designed by architects Curtis and Holesworth of Reno, the four-story Classical Revival structure had 150 rooms with private baths, mahogany trim, crystal chandeliers, and an elevator. It closed permanently in 1945 after housing Army Air Corps personnel during World War II and has sat largely vacant since.
Goldfield, NV
Goldfield is a former gold-mining boomtown in Esmeralda County, Nevada, established in 1902 and briefly the largest city in the state, with a peak population of about 20,000 in 1906. Mining declined sharply after 1910; a 1913 flash flood and a 1923 fire destroyed much of the town. Fewer than 300 residents remain, making Goldfield one of the most-visited still-occupied ghost towns in the American West.
Austin, NV
The International Hotel in Austin, Nevada is recognized as the oldest hotel in the state. Its wooden portion was originally part of an 1860 hotel in Virginia City, dismantled in 1863 and reconstructed in Austin during the Reese River silver rush. The building still stands on Main Street and is a Nevada State Historical Marker site. Today it operates as the International Cafe & Bar - the lodging component is no longer offered, with travelers using motels across the street.
Boulder City, NV
Constructed between 1931 and 1936 on the Colorado River at the Nevada-Arizona border, Hoover Dam was built by Six Companies Inc. under federal contract during the height of the Great Depression. The Bureau of Reclamation officially recorded 96 worker deaths during construction from falls, drowning, dynamite accidents, and equipment failures; historians note the actual toll was likely higher once heat-related and pneumonia deaths are included.
Elko, NV
The building that became the Historic Commercial Casino started as the Humboldt Lodging House in 1869, making it one of the oldest commercial structures in Elko. The property added gaming after Nevada legalized it in 1931 and took on the Commercial name around 1941, the same decade it pioneered live nightly entertainment in Nevada's casino industry.
Fallon, NV
Grimes Point is a 720-acre archaeological site in Churchill County, Nevada, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972. Approximately 150 basalt boulders along the trail bear petroglyphs carved between roughly 3,000 and 8,000 years ago, on what was once the shoreline of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan. Hidden Cave, discovered by modern visitors in the 1920s, yielded artifacts dated to approximately 9,470 years old, including a rare diamond-plaited matting specimen.
Aerial survey · USDA NAIPHenderson, NV
Foxridge Park opened in September 1986 as part of Henderson's Green Valley development, a planned suburb east of Las Vegas. The 42-acre recreational area was conceived as a community amenity and has hosted Shakespeare in the Park productions and other civic events. The park is maintained by the City of Henderson.
Minden, NV
Built in 1912 as a meeting hall for the Carson Valley Improvement Club, the two-story brick building on Esmeralda Avenue has served Minden as a civic and event space for more than a century. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In March 1964 it was pressed into service as a temporary morgue after Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashed into Genoa Peak, killing all 85 people aboard.
Primm, NV
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow ran a violent two-year crime spree across Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana, and neighboring states from 1932 to 1934, killing at least nine police officers and multiple civilians in the course of bank robberies and smaller thefts. On May 23, 1934, a six-man posse of Texas and Louisiana lawmen led by former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer ambushed their gray 1934 Ford V-8 on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, firing more than 100 armor-piercing bullets into the car and killing both occupants. The authenticated vehicle was purchased at auction in 1988 for $250,000 and has been on display at Primm Valley Resort since that acquisition.