There might only be a few people on Planet Earth who can say they've been more socially-distant during the pandemic than Brent Underwood. "I thought, hey, you know, what better place to ...

If you build it they will come - at least one man is hoping that's the case, after buying an abandoned town and building a hotel to attract visitors. YouTube creator Brent Underwood and his investor ...

Brent Underwood moved from Austin to the abandoned mining town of Cerro Gordo, California, in 2020. He spent three years living there alone working to bring a relic of the past back to life. Some ...

(CNN) — It is possible to buy entire towns these days. A little over a month after a 19th century ghost town in California called Cerro Gordo went on sale, Brent Underwood bought it for $1.4 million, ...

This is a story about the history and future of an evil town. Cerro Gordo is a settlement of bloodstained brothels, skeletons and busted up pianos on the wind-battered southern slope of the Inyo ...

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 ...

A man who bought a California ghost town with hopes of reviving it is now trapped there amid coronavirus lockdown. Brent Underwood, 32, and his friend, Jon Bier, shelled out a whopping $1.4 million in ...

A businessman has been stuck in an abandoned mining town for more than a year after getting trapped there by coronavirus and a snowstorm. Brent Underwood bought 300-acre Cerro Gordo in California for ...

I live in a ghost town — once the most lucrative silver mine in California. For the past five years, I’ve spent nearly every day rebuilding Cerro Gordo, a long-abandoned boomtown perched high in the ...

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, ...