Here, guests enjoyed French cooking, hot baths and a decorative lobby with dark mahogany walls and gold-leaf ceilings, but the young woman never knew such luxury. After all, she was a prostitute and, worse, pregnant. Prospectors, entrepreneurs and laborers abandoned Goldfield in the 1920s when the boom went bust.

As you walk through the darkened hotel with Virginia Ridgway, the head of tourism for what little remains in Goldfield, she swears she is neither crazy nor drunk when she talks about having seen a glowing man in a black hat and hearing footsteps where there should have been none in this four-story brick building. Today, the haunted room where the imprisoned woman died is empty and hollow.

From Las Vegas, drive 184 miles north along U.S. 95. For more information, call Ridgway at (775) 485-6365.