This Abandoned Town Is Being Swallowed by Sand

Step inside Kolmanskop, the Namibian ghost town buried by sand. Once a thriving diamond mining settlement, this abandoned place is now being reclaimed by the Namib Desert. Once home to a hospital, ballroom, power station and even an ice factory, its sand-filled buildings remain as haunting relics of a forgotten era. Subscribe to Obscuvia for more strange history and abandoned places.