Sadly, the Las Vegas & Tonopah Train Depot in Rhyolite was completed about the same time the town started its decline. More people were using the train to leave than to arrive, and finally by 1919 its doors were shut.

A revival to the building came in 1937 when a private owner bought it and made it into a casino. Called the Rhyolite Ghost Casino, gambling took place on the bottom floor while "women of the night" occupied the upper floor.

Today, because the building is in relatively good shape, and cannot be moved, a donation to revive it is being accepted by the Bureau of Land Management who now owns the building as well as the Rhyolite townsite.

A few Joshua trees are probably the prettiest things in the town today.

The Overby Building was the largest in town. It housed a bank, a dentist's office, an attorney's office and a stock brokerage firm.

The Cook Bank Building was one of four banks in town, and, by far, the finest. Inside was a marble staircase and mahogany furnishings. The post office was housed on the bottom floor. Despite its grandeur, the bank was only in business for two years before a nation-wide financial crisis caused it to go bankrupt.

The Porter brothers' mercantile store was the most popular business in town and was the largest employer other than the mines. It was the go-to for Christmas decorations and was said to hold displays that rivaled the department stores in major cities.

Tom Kelly built his bottle house in 1906. Lumber was hard to come by in Nevada and expensive. Bottles, for which he paid children 10 cents for a wheelbarrow full, was the perfect solution for the climate. The bottles stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter. They also provide efficient light. It took 50,000 bottles to build this home and $2500, mostly for wood trim and fixtures.

Also on the town grounds is a gift shop and museum with such "ghostly" figures as this displayed in the yard. Not sure of the true meaning or purpose, but they were interesting in a very weird way.