Cerro Gordo, an abandoned Wild West silver mining town, was a dangerous place in the 1870s, with at least one murder a week. The abandoned American Hotel in Cerro Gordo, California. Alamy In the ...

This episode was originally released on August 7, 2020. The old Latin phrase "memento mori" is a favorite of 33 year-old Brent Underwood's. It refers to the inevitability of death, which is fitting ...

CERRO GORDO - Until recently, the site of Cerro Gordo's first hotel and post office along the Sangamon River held nothing but a cornfield. Now relatives of the man who built that long-ago landmark ...

Update, July 24, 2018: Travel + Leisure reports that Cerro Gordo, the California ghost town put up for sale earlier this summer, has new owners, Brent Underwood, who owns a backpacker hostel in Austin ...

Why buy a house when you can buy an entire town? A 19th century ghost town in California, that includes an abandoned hotel, church and bunkhouse, came on the market earlier this month. Cerro Gordo, ...