Hukou Waterfall: The Yellow Waterfall
KaushikMonday, November 30, 2015
The Hukou Waterfall on China’s Yellow River has very modest dimensions. It’s just 30 meters wide, increasing to 50 meters during flood seaso...
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Sam Kee Building: World's Narrowest Office Building
KaushikMonday, November 30, 2015
The Sam Kee Building, located on 8 West Pender Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as...
The Scale Lane Bridge in Hull
KaushikMonday, November 30, 2015
The Scale Lane Bridge is an innovative pedestrian swing bridge located in the city of Hull, England, that offers pedestrians the unique expe...
Upside Down Houses Around The World
KaushikSaturday, November 28, 2015
A clichéd yet popular tourist attraction that never fails to amuse is an upside down house, with a faithfully reproduced exterior and interi...
Shigir Idol: The World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture
KaushikFriday, November 27, 2015
In the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is a 9 feet tall wooden statue enclosed in a glass box. Called the...
Try Galileo’s Gravity Experiments From The Leaning Tower of Gingin
KaushikFriday, November 27, 2015
In the late 16th century, famed Italian scientist Galileo Galilei supposedly dropped balls of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pi...
The Multi-Layered Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague
KaushikFriday, November 27, 2015
In the past when a cemetery ran out of space and there were no more land to expand, a new cemetery was created by layering more soil over th...
The Realmonte Salt Mine in Sicily
KaushikThursday, November 26, 2015
In the southern cost of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, lies the town of Realmonte where there is a huge underground sa...
The UFO Watchtower in Hooper, Colorado
KaushikThursday, November 26, 2015
Smack in the middle of the San Luis Valley, in Hooper, Colorado, is a ten foot tall platform called UFO Watchtower atop which one can watch ...
The Bahrain World Trade Center Has Built-In Wind Turbines
KaushikThursday, November 26, 2015
Since the last few years an increasing number of green buildings are being constructed in the developed and developing world, focusing on en...
The 13th Century Kelburn Castle Covered With Colorful Graffiti
KaushikWednesday, November 25, 2015
Who said castles need to be somber colored stone buildings with grey and brown exterior? Ask the Earl of Glasgow, who had his transformed in...
The Atomic Bomb Crater in Mars Bluff, South Carolina
KaushikWednesday, November 25, 2015
Not too many families had a nuclear bomb dropped in their backyard, and survived. The Gregg family of Mars Bluff, South Carolina, was one of...
The Center of The Universe in Tulsa
KaushikTuesday, November 24, 2015
Named after the city’s burgeoning music festival, the Center of the Universe in downtown Tulsa, in the US state of Oklahoma, is a strange at...
Bolton Strid: A Stream That Swallows People
KaushikTuesday, November 24, 2015
Between Barden Tower and Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, England, lies one of nature's most dangerous booby traps. It’s a small innocuous-loo...
Fordlandia: A Modern Industrial Ruin in The Heart of Amazon
Arijit SarmahMonday, November 23, 2015
This photograph of men standing in shirtless bodies, surrounded by the long leaves of the jungle fauna, and a thatched hut behind, was captu...
The Oak in a Dovecote, Béceleuf
KaushikMonday, November 23, 2015
In the old days, the possession of a dovecote was a symbol of status and power, and only the nobles had the privilege of owning one. Breedin...
Casa Terracota: The Clay House
KaushikMonday, November 23, 2015
This misshapen adobe colored house, located in Villa de Leyva, a colonial mountain village 95 miles north of Bogota, Colombia, was built by ...
The World Map at Lake Klejtrup
KaushikSaturday, November 21, 2015
The World Map on the banks of the Lake Klejtrup in Denmark is a 4,000-square-meter walkable map of the world built out of soil, stones and g...
The Beached German Submarine U-118 at Hastings, England
KaushikSaturday, November 21, 2015
In the morning of 15 April, 1919, the townsfolk of Hastings, in Sussex, on the south coast of England, woke up to an astonishing sight. A hu...
The Flower Tower of Paris
KaushikFriday, November 20, 2015
In Paris's 17th arrondissement is a 10-story apartment building that’s so completely covered with potted plants that the building itself...
The Palace of Peace and Reconciliation
KaushikFriday, November 20, 2015
In September 2003, Kazakhstan the largest of the former Soviet Republics hosted the inaugural Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional R...
The Sad Grave of Kate McCormick
KaushikFriday, November 20, 2015
In a quite corner of the Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis oldest active, is the grave of 21 year old woman who died after childbirth on February 1,...
The Most Bizarre Versions of Stonehenge
KaushikThursday, November 19, 2015
The ancient and mysterious Stonehenge, in the plains of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England, is arguably one of the most famous monuments in the...
Patterned Grounds
KaushikThursday, November 19, 2015
The repeated annual freezing and thawing of permafrost soils can produce very interesting geometric features called patterned ground. These ...
Al Bahar Towers’ Responsive Sun Shades
KaushikThursday, November 19, 2015
Glass-façade towers are popping up every where with little thought and consideration for the local climate, even in the harsh desert environ...
The Chapel of The Holy Cross in Sedona
KaushikWednesday, November 18, 2015
Jutting out of the red sandstone walls in the Arizona desert, the Chapel of the Holy Cross near the town of Sedona, is a marvel of modern ar...
A Used Car Vending Machine in Nashville
KaushikWednesday, November 18, 2015
Online used car retailer Carvana , that has revolutionized how people buy cars, is back with another innovation — the world’s first coin ope...
Ships Made of Concrete
KaushikTuesday, November 17, 2015
Perhaps the most bizarre choice of material humans ever made to make a vessel that floats was reinforced concrete. For centuries ships have ...
Pavlov’s House in Volgograd
KaushikTuesday, November 17, 2015
On the banks of river Volga in the heart of modern-day Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, stands a four-story apartment building with a brick m...
Dig Your Own Fossils at These Quarries
KaushikMonday, November 16, 2015
People knew about fossils since the time of Herodotus, but it was only in the late 18th and early 19th century, when the importance of fossi...
Musical Roads That Play Melodies When Cars Drive Over
KaushikMonday, November 16, 2015
A Japanese engineer by the name of Shizuo Shinoda was digging with a bulldozer when he accidentally scraped some markings into a road with i...
Crooked, Drunken And Dancing Forests
KaushikSaturday, November 14, 2015
A tree, when left to its own device, will normally grow straight. But when the tree is young and its trunk is tender, it can be forced to gr...
A Tsunami of Shelf Cloud Over Sydney
KaushikSaturday, November 14, 2015
For the last few days, social media is awash with photographs of an extraordinary roll of cloud that has acquired the moniker of “cloud tsun...
The EVE Online Monument in Reykjavik
KaushikThursday, November 12, 2015
In the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), the science fiction game EVE Online developed and published by CCP ...
The Monster Waves at Nazare, Portugal
KaushikWednesday, November 11, 2015
The pretty seaside town and resort of Nazaré on the west coast of Portugal remains crowded throughout the summer with tourists who flock to ...
The Geographic Center of Asia
KaushikWednesday, November 11, 2015
If you were to take the entire continent of Asia and balance it on a pinhead, you would have to put the pin at a place called Kyzyl in Russi...
The Mei-ling Palace of Nanjing Looks Like a Giant Necklace
KaushikTuesday, November 10, 2015
The Mei-ling Palace, located on the top of Xiaohong Hill in eastern Nanjing city, was once the home of China’s former president Chiang Kai-s...
Woodhenge: Stonehenge’s Sister Circle Made of Wood
KaushikTuesday, November 10, 2015
Less than 2 miles north-east of the famous Stonehenge stood another Neolithic-age monument but made of timber. Although the wood is long gon...
Frank Slide: Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide Now a Tourist Attraction
KaushikTuesday, November 10, 2015
In the early morning hours of April 29, 1903, a massive section of limestone broke away from the summit of Turtle Mountain in Alberta, Canad...
Elephant Foot Glacier
KaushikFriday, November 06, 2015
The Elephant Foot Glacier in northeastern Greenland, looks like a bowl of batter that has been poured over a pan. The sheer pressure of the ...
The Secret ‘Plot E’ of Oise-Aisne American Cemetery
KaushikFriday, November 06, 2015
The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, in Picardy in northern France, contains the graves of just over 6,000 American soldiers who d...
The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur
KaushikFriday, November 06, 2015
The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur is located approximately 40 kilometers south of Cairo. It is one of the unusual pyramids of ancient Egypt, but u...
The Fire Lookout Trees of Australia
KaushikThursday, November 05, 2015
In many forest areas in the United States, Canada and Australia, there are fire lookout towers manned by persons called the "fire looko...
Gasometer Oberhausen: An Exhibition Hall in a Former Gasometer
KaushikThursday, November 05, 2015
The Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany, was constructed in the late 1920s to store excess gas produced by the coal and steel industry in the R...
Florida’s Radioactive Fountain of Youth
KaushikWednesday, November 04, 2015
In the corner of Marion and Taylor, in the town of Punta Gorda, in Florida, is a public water fountain that tourists and locals alike have b...
Pikeville: The City That Moved a Mountain
KaushikWednesday, November 04, 2015
Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, in Kentucky, along the Levisa Fork — a tributary of the Big Sandy River — lies the thriving city of Pi...
The Graveyard of Fallen Monuments
KaushikWednesday, November 04, 2015
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, so did thousands of statues all across the Union. Crowds gathered with hammers and cranes and pulle...
The Large Binocular Telescope
KaushikTuesday, November 03, 2015
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is an optical telescope located on Mount Graham at an altitude of 3,200 meters in the Pinaleno Mountains...
Old Car City: The World's Largest Classic Car Junkyard
KaushikTuesday, November 03, 2015
If you drive 50 miles north of Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia, along Interstate-75 and then turn right for U.S. Route 411 towards Cha...
Lac de Gafsa: Tunisia’s Mysterious Lake That Appeared Overnight
KaushikMonday, November 02, 2015
Mehdi Bilel was returning home after attending a marriage in the north of Tunisia when he spotted a large lake glimmering in the hot sun, in...
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