Jack Dykinga / Abandoned homes in the diamond mining ghost town. Kolmanskop, near the Skeleton Coast, Namibia. June 2013.

John Shaw / Sand dunes in house. Kolmanskop, a ghost town in the Namib desert near Luderitz, Namibia, May 2017. The town was founded in the early 1900s for diamond mining, and completely abandoned in 1954. It is...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Yartsagumbu (Cordyceps sinensis) or Caterpillar fungus in English, known as Himalayan gold, sold dried with its parasitised caterpillar of Ghost moth (Hepialus humuli), which has high monetary value i...