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 ...

Kolmanskop, located in the Namib desert used to be a small, but rich mining village. It has since been abandoned and taken over by sand. A worker, Zacharias Lewala discovered a diamond while working, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abandoned towns Kolmanskop, Namibia, and Vorkuta, Russia.Gleb Tarro/Getty Images, Maria Passer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Across ...

Anyone hungry for a foretaste of the End Times, see here: Alvaro Sanchez-Montañes‘s indoor photos of an abandoned desert mining town paint a haunting portrait of earth after people. The shots, snapped ...

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 ...

Once a thriving diamond mining settlement deep within the Namib Desert, Kolmanskop in southern Namibia is now a hauntingly beautiful ghost town, slowly being reclaimed by the sand. With wallpaper ...

Photographer Wim van den Heever scans the image that his camera trap, triggerable by motion, has captured. It lays bare the tattered skeleton of an abandoned building in Kolmanskop, Namibia, a ...

ONCE bustling villages and cities suddenly abandoned and now frozen in time have long intrigued the human race. But Kolmanskop is different from all the rest. From Silverton in New South Wales to ...