Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brent Underwood stands amid the ashes of the American Hotel on Wednesday, two days after a fire in the Inyo Mountains ghost town ...

An entrepreneur has documented the progress he has made in rebuilding a California ghost town that he purchased to develop into a tourist attraction. Cerro Gordo—meaning fat hill in Spanish—was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, real ...