Brent Underwood, 32, and his friend, Jon Bier, shelled out a whopping $1.4 million in 2018 to buy Cerro Gordo, a former silver mining town with a storied past in the Inyo Mountains, near Death Valley, ...

This ghost town ain't big enough for the both of us. Cerro Gordo, an abandoned mining town south of the Sierra Nevada near the Inyo Mountains, is officially off the market. With over ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A little over a month after a 19th century ...

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 ...

Brent Underwood is living inside what could be mistaken for a Stephen King novel: The story of a caretaker snowed in at a place with a long, sordid history of violence could just as easily describe ...

Brent Underwood, who rose to fame as the sole permanent resident of abandoned town Cerro Gordo, is the author of the new book called “Ghost Town Living.” Brent Underwood is the owner of Cerro Gordo in ...

A "ghost town" established by silver miners in the 19th century is up for sale in California, and it can be yours for less than what a home typically costs in San Francisco. Founded in 1867, Cerro ...

Zak Bagans and one of the eerie old buildings at Cerro Gordo Ghost Town. Pic credit: Travel Channel Cerro Gordo Ghost Town, an old abandoned mining town near Death Valley in California, is ...

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 ...

“This road looks a bit sketchy,” I said to my traveling partner on this trip — our old friend, Paul. “Nah, you got this,” he replied. Just then, a humongous propane tanker truck came down the narrow ...