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Rhyolite, boomtown to ghost town in a decade
1905
Nye County, Nevada
Tahoenathan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A gold camp that had 5,000 people, concrete buildings, an opera house and electric light within three years, and was effectively empty by 1916 after the 1907 panic cut its credit. A house built from 50,000 bottles is still standing.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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