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 ...

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 ...

One evening in 1908, a Namibian railway worker named Zacherias Lewala was shovelling railroad tracks clear of creeping sand dunes when he saw some stones shining in the low light. Lewala’s German ...

The German-influenced African village of Kolmanskop was once a bustling and exciting place in the early 1900s, after diamonds were discovered. And during World War I, Kolmanskop was one of the richest ...

Once a thriving diamond mining settlement in the Namib Desert, Kolmanskop in southern Namibia is now a hauntingly beautiful ghost town, slowly being reclaimed by the sand. Abandoned since the 1950s, ...

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 ...