Issue 5 · June 24, 2026 The Ghost in the Architecture Virginia City in the heat of the day, an Edgar Allan Poe speakeasy, and a bar that was exactly what Paul said it would be. We took the Subaru. The road from Sparks to Virginia City doesn't ease you in — it climbs out of the valley on a series of switchbacks, sheds the subdivisions fast, opens across high desert with views that run fifty miles on a clear day, and then tips over the Comstock and drops you into 1859. Twenty-six miles from our...