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Welcome to Kolmanskop, a Ghost Town in Namibia

Okay, so this might not be the place to get away from it all (unless you're willing to do some serious renovation work), but there is something breathtaking about this building's complete isolation and takeover by the surrounding nature. This house sits in a ghost town in the Namib desert called Kolmanskop. Years ago, this was a thriving mining village, but today it is a tourist attraction.

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A quick surf around the web tells us that as many as 35,000 tourists visit this ghost town every year, and it's not hard to see why - there's something hauntingly beautiful about these brightly colored rooms being slowly reclaimed by the desert.