In 1908, a railway worker clearing sand beside a track in what is now Namibia noticed something unusual: stones that caught the sunlight. His German supervisor, August Stauch, recognised the discovery ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...