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Ooh Spooky

  • Posted by: Alexandra Marvar
  • on July 25, 2008 at 3:51 am

Don’t miss this small handful of photos from ten of the world’s most eerie ghost towns, from Namibia to France to Cyprus to Azerbaijan… Cities ghosted as recently as the 90s, haunting images of what’s still there.

Via kottke

Photo: Kolmanskop, Namibia, abandoned at the end of a gold rush in the 1950s and since reclaimed by sand dunes.

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