New photos from Kolmanskop, an eerie ghost town in the southern Namib desert were released yesterday by Tristan Edsall, a photographer from Geelong, Australia. The town is what remains of a diamond ...

During the early years of the 20 th century, the small town of Kolmanskop, which originally was just a train station, became the richest town in Namibia during a diamond boom. However, after mining ...

Have a look at this ghost town where the streets are buried in sand and the only sounds are the deadened echoes of the wind. These stunning dunes fill the abandoned buildings of a dilapidated place ...

From Silverton in New South Wales to Bodie in California — the world is home to many once bustling villages and cities suddenly abandoned and now frozen in time. But one such town is different from ...

Step inside the haunting remains of Kolmanskop, a once-thriving diamond mining town in Namibia, now slowly reclaimed by the Namib Desert—where sand-filled rooms, faded wallpaper, and ghostly silence ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. People flocked to what became known as Kolmanskop, Namibia, after the discovery of ...

The abandoned town in Namibia, Africa, was formed by diamond miners who stayed just 50 years before heading of to the next resource-rich spot Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by ...