Seven stacks of giant fluorescent boulders in the Nevada desert seem a bit out of place, but awesome.
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Seven Magic Mountains
Seven stacks of giant fluorescent boulders in the Nevada desert seem a bit out of place, but awesome.
Borax Museum
Death Valley National Park
The Borax museum is an outdoor museum exhibiting machinery and vehicles used by the Pacific Coast Borax Company in their Death Valley mining operations.
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| 20 Mule Team wagon trains were used to haul 24 tons of borax 165 miles from Death Valley to Mojave. |
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| Steam powered trains eventually replaced the 20 Mule Teams. |
Stovepipe Well
Death Valley National Park
The well was once at the intersection of two trails through Death Valley. After sand obscured the spot, someone stuck a piece of stovepipe into the well as a marker.
Bottle House
One of the few buildings still standing in Rhyolite is a house made of glass and adobe. A local saloon owner, Tom Kelly, built this house in 1906 using materials he had in abundance: 51,000 beer bottles and mud.
