Weird day trips from Las Vegas
The strangest Las Vegas finds are often a short drive out. These 11 day trips — Pioneer Saloon, Goldwell Open Air Museum, St. Thomas Ghost Town and more — are each hand-vetted and sourced: ghost towns, hot-spring soaks, roadside oddities, and odd small-town museums worth the gas. A weird day trip is its own kind of date.
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Pioneer Saloon
A 1913 pressed-tin-walled saloon — one of the oldest bars in Nevada — still shows two bullet holes from a fat…
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Goldwell Open Air Museum
Since 1984, Belgian sculptor Albert Szukalski's ghostly plaster-and-burlap recreation of "The Last Supper" ha…
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St. Thomas Ghost Town
Established by Mormon settlers in 1865, St. Thomas was a frontier town that was completely submerged under La…
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Saint Louis Mine
Located in Clark County between Nelson and Searchlight, the Saint Louis Mine is a historic gold mine that als…
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Azurite Mine
Discovered in 1899, the Azurite Mine is a historic copper, gold, and zinc mine located on the southwestern sl…
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Sultan Mine
Located in the Goodsprings Mining District, the Sultan Mine was a productive lead, zinc, and silver operation…
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Potosi Mine
Potosi Mine is Nevada's oldest lode mine, established by Mormon settlers in 1856 to extract lead. It later be…
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Southern Nevada Mine
Located just off Highway 95 north of Searchlight, this historic gold and silver mine was established in the e…
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Old Pope Mine
The Old Pope Mine is a defunct prospecting site located in the rugged Black Mountains of Mohave County, Arizo…
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Columbia Mine
Established in 1886 within the Goodsprings Mining District, the Columbia Mine was a notable producer of coppe…
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Griffith Mine
Tucked away in the cool pine forests of Mount Charleston, the Griffith Mine is a historic lead mine dating ba…