The sand comes in through the doors and the windows. In some houses it has climbed to the middle of the walls, and visitors ...

This enclave has become a ghost town where the dunes have been reclaiming their place. n one of the most inhospitable places ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...