Virginia City is the home of the Nevada Gambling Museum.
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Once the highest concrete dam in the world, Hoover Dam located on the border of Nevada and Arizona offers guided tours and a museum of artifacts of the construction and its workers.
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While Samuel Clemens took the penname "Mark Twain" as a reporter working for the "Territorial Enterprise," he began his writing career as a reporter in the Midwest some years before moving to Virginia City, Nevada in 1862.