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 ...
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This photographer spent 10 years chasing the perfect shot of a rare species. This is how he got it
South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever was crowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year. His winning shot of the elusive brown hyena was a decade in the making.
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Across the world, there are mysterious abandoned cities that stand as ominous time capsules. The world's ghost towns include Kolmanskop, Namibia, and Vorkuta, Russia. Many of the largest abandoned ...
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 ...
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