Is the Fly Geyser real? Origins: Due to its strange appearance and the fact that it resides behind locked gates on private property (the Fly Ranch in Hualapai Flat), the Fly Geyser in Nevada is often ...

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Nevada is a wild place above ground. But below desert landscape, clown motel, car forests, and alien-themed bars, Nevada is even more otherworldly. The state is thinning, slowly being torn apart inch ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. This alien-looking geyser on the edge of Black Rock Desert was made by humans—by ...

About 20 miles northeast of the tiny town of Gerlach, Nev., lies one of the planet's rarest oddities: a man-made geyser. Only a handful of them have ever been "discovered" – like Oregon's Old ...

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Fly Ranch Geyser's history is as fascinating as it gets. Its story started in 1916 when an earth drilling project accidentally tapped into a geothermal spring. For years, this dormant geyser remained ...

Water. Steam. Massive Technicolor mounds. A bizarre mistake rises from the ground here, between the endless desert and mountains of remote northwestern Nevada. This place, Fly Geyser, is undeniably ...

Somewhere in the world, you can visit a place where a multicolored cone rises from the desert floor, continuously spouting steaming water high into the air like a natural fountain that never stops ...