Ten kilometers inland from the Namibian coastal town of Lüderitz, a cluster of elegant, ...

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 ...

In the Namib desert in southern Namibia lies a ghost town known as Kolmanskop.The town was once home to approximately 1,000 miners and their children, but today only tourists with the proper permits ...

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 ...

Kolmanskop is a famous ghost town in the Namib Desert in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz. Once a small but thriving diamond-mining town, Kolmanskop is now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...