Metropolis is an strange Nevada ghost town. The town was developed from an early 20th-century attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush lands near Wells.
The town had largely dried up by the mid-1930s due to low agricultural prices and conflicts over water rights. In specific,a lawsuit from downstream water users in the Humboldt River drainage blocked using irrigation water from a local creek.
All that remains of the once-bustling town are the ruins of the school and hotel. Otherwise, aside from a few broken artifacts, and little has been left standing. The scruffy gray-green shrub prominent across the area is sagebrush,which has grown back all across its original range.
Before Metropolis's final demise, settlers tried to grow dry-land wheat with no success.
Source: atlasobscura.com