This farflung desert town was once one of the world’s richest, but was abandoned after World War I and has been slowly sinking into the sand ever since. Take a tour of Kolmanskop, Namibia, which was known for its diamonds and was full of German miners hoping to make it big in the middle of nowhere.

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