Lt. Col. James Taylor (left) and MSgt. Watty Coleman (right) holding a safety award plaque, Nellis Air Force Base, North Las Vegas. Site Name: Nellis Air Force Base (Nev.)

A time-lapse color image of the Reno Arch. Headlights from automobiles streak across the road underneath the neon sign that reads: "Reno; The Biggest Little City In The World." Site Name: Reno Arch (Reno, Nev.)

View of the Las Vegas Strip at night, featuring neon signs for the Frontier (showing Siegfried and Roy in "Beyond Belief"), the Riviera, Silver City, the El Rancho, the Stardust and the Sahara hotels. Site Name: Las Vegas Boulevard

A view of Fremont Street at night, including signs for the Hotel Apache and Boulder Club. Site Name: Fremont Street (Las Vegas, Nev.); Boulder Club (Las Vegas, Nev.); Hotel Apache (Las Vegas, Nev.)

A desert bighorn ram sits perched on a mountainside above Cloudrock Court in the Ascaya luxury home lot development. Infrastructure for Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.

A flood control channel is walled along Cloudrock Court in the upper section of the Ascaya luxury home lot development. Infrastructure for Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.

The Ascaya luxury home development lays out before the Las Vegas Valley as seen from Cloudrock Court. Infrastructure for Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.