Rhyolite, Nevada
Rhyolite is a ghost town on the California Nevada border. It photographs well late afternoon, do not arrive too late or the sun will go behind a ridge and you will miss the best light. I have not been there in the morning so I cannot comment on the light at dawn. Cook Bank and the Bottle House (and the car near) it are excellent subjects though you may want to clone out some of the telephone lines and objects occasionally interrupting the scene. Rhyolite is also a very good area for star trails and light painting or night flash. The Rhyolite cemetery has many wooden markers mixed in with more recent headstones, for me the mixture does not photograph well. Zooming in on individual graves might work however I did not have time to try this on my last visit..
Rhyolite is about 2 1/2 hours from Las Vegas, take I-15 North to US-95. Continue on US-95 about 115 miles to Beatty, Nevada. In Beatty turn left on NV-374 S (Main Street) and go four miles to the turnoff for Rhyolite.
Rhyolite is less than an hour from Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley and makes a good late afternoon shot if you are traveling back to Las Vegas from Death Valley.
Map of Rhyolite