Kolmanskop

Kolmanskop

The ghost town of Kolmanskop in Namibia was once a German diamond-mining settlement. In the early 1900s, it was one of the wealthiest cities in the world. It had a hospital with the first X-Ray unit in the southern hemisphere. Now this ghost town is buried in the desert.

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