Palmetto in Goldfield, Nevada

Per Atlas Obscura, Palmetto is a Nevada ghost town visible right from the highway—no remote roads, no admission gate, no souvenir stands. Silver was discovered there in eighteen sixty-six, prompting miners to build a twelve-stamp mill, though insufficient ore soon forced abandonment; the camp's name came from miners' mistaken belief that Joshua trees were related to palms. The site experienced brief revivals in the eighteen eighties and early nineteen hundreds, the latter creating a mile-long main street, but neither revival lasted. Today, more structures remain from the original eighteen-hundreds camp than from the early nineteen-hundreds revival, which consisted mainly of tents.

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