The Cheese Caves of Roquefort
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 29, 2016
The pungent odor and tangy taste of the Roquefort cheese, with its distinctive spots and veins of blue-green mold throughout, is not for eve...
Showing posts from February, 2016
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 29, 2016
The Shushtar Hydraulic System in the island city of Shushtar is a complex irrigation system that dates back to the time of the Achaemenid ki...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 10
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Giant Crystal Cave in the Me...
The Stick Chart Navigation of Marshall Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 27, 2016
The Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean was settled by the Micronesians more than three thousand years ago. These early settlers had to ma...
Vertical Earth Kilometer
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2016
In Friedrichsplatz Park in Kassel, Germany, there is a public art installation of epic scale, but you can’t see it. The only visible sign of...
The Stunning Beauty of Braided Rivers
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2016
Most rivers flow in one broad channel of water, but some rivers split into lots of small channels that continually split and join each other...
The Norway Spiral
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 25, 2016
On December 9, 2009, a curious spiral of blue and white light appeared in the night sky over northern Norway and Sweden, freaking out a sect...
Highbury Square: A 93-Year-Old Football Stadium Converted Into Apartments
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 25, 2016
For any die-hard Gooner with half-a-million pound to spare, what’s better than buying a property at the old Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, Nor...
The Urban Villages of China
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 25, 2016
Over the last four decades, China has experienced rapid urban growth and massive rural to urban migration. Between the late seventies to the...
Collaborating With Insects to Make Art
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2016
Some of the most hated creatures on earth are bugs. These small scurry things invade our home and private spaces, spoil our food, get into o...
The Old Mill of Vernon
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2016
The Old Mill (Le Vieux-Moulin, in French) in the commune of Vernon, in northern France, is a 16th century flour mill constructed on top of a...
The Pigment Library at Harvard
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2016
A piece of rare lapis lazuli stone from quarries in Afghanistan, secretions from on ocean-dwelling snail Bolinus brandaris , dried bodies of...
The Boiling River of Mayantuyacu, Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2016
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, in Mayantuyacu, Peru, flows a river so hot its water actually boils. The locals call it “Shanay-timpishka” wh...
The Forgotten Desert Libraries of Chinguetti
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2016
The ancient desert town of Chinguetti, in Mauritania, on the western edge of the Sahara, has changed little since it was founded more than t...
Diana Beltran Herrera’s Realistic Paper Birds
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2016
These stunning paper birds were created by Columbian artist Diana Beltran Herrera using nothing but a few colored papers, glue and a pair o...
Fantasy Canyon, Utah
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2016
Fantasy Canyon is located about 25 miles south of Vernal, in northeastern Utah, United States. This small area, which is not really a canyon...
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, And its Claim to ‘The World’s Longest Bridge’ Title
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 18, 2016
If you look at the list of the longest bridges in the world , you will notice that the top positions are dominated by Asian countries, espec...
Brent Christensen’s Amazing Ice Castles
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 18, 2016
Brent Christensen is the founder of Ice Castles , an Utah-based company specializing in creating lofty ice castles by carefully orchestratin...
Artist Creates Large GPS Doodles by Cycling Around City
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2016
When Canadian artist and fitness junkie Stephen Lund began tracking his cycling routes using GPS, he saw a potential to be creative with the...
The Staircase of The King of Aragon
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2016
The Staircase of The King of Aragon (Escalier du Roi d’Aragon, in French) is a stony staircase carved into the vertical side of a limestone ...
The Strange Rocks of Vottovaara
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2016
Twenty km south-east of the village of Sukkajärvi, in the west Karelia hills of the Karelia region of Russia, is the mountain of Vottovaara....
The Abandoned Giant Busts of Presidents Park
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2016
The iconic heads of four US Presidents sculpted on the granite face of Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills in South Dakota, has marveled mill...
London’s ‘Missing Buildings’ by Thom And Beth Atkinson
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 15, 2016
September 7, 1940, is a significant date in London's history. On this Saturday afternoon, hundreds of German bombers flew over London, a...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 9
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Close Up Pictures Reveal The...
This Boulder Has a Hidden Wi-Fi Router That Needs Fire to Turn On
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 13, 2016
On a small clearing in the woods, on the grounds of the Springhornhof , a museum of site-specific outdoor sculpture, in Neuenkirchen, German...
The Wolf’s Lair, Poland
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2016
Deep in the Masurian woods about 8 km from the small East Prussian town of Rastenburg, lies the ruins of Adolf Hitler’s most secretive bunke...
Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2016
Every year on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, chaotic scenes erupt in the streets and streams of Ashbourne in Derbyshire, England, as a mo...
Want to Spend a Night in Van Gogh's Bedroom?
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2016
The Art Institute of Chicago has created a life-size replica of Van Gogh’s famous bedroom at his home in Arles, France, which he had immorta...
El Callejon del Beso, The Alley of The Kiss
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2016
The charming city of Guanajuato in central Mexico has many narrow streets and alleys, but El Callejon del Beso is by far one of the narrowes...
The Spectacular Waves of Lake Erie
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2016
It’s hard to believe these pictures of gigantic, thrashing waves were not captured in the ocean but on the shallowest of the Great Lakes of ...
The Coloured Canyon of Egypt
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2016
The Coloured Canyon is a narrow slot canyon located near the town of Nuweiba, on Sinai peninsula, Egypt, so named because of its amazing spe...
The Stopping of Niagara Falls in 1969
Anonymous
Feb 9, 2016
Endeavor to change the course of history, has always been a primary motive of human civilization, through several centuries. It has been obs...
Belogorsky Monastery of St. Nicholas
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2016
The Belogorsky Monastery of St. Nicholas, also known as the Belaya Gora Monastery, is located on top of a hill in Belaya Gora or the White M...
Unseen Pictures of The Vietnam War From The Other Side
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2016
What the western world remembers about the Vietnam War is defined by a handful of iconic photographs taken through the lenses of American an...
The Coconut Palace, Philippines
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2016
The official residence and workplace of the Vice President of the Philippines, in Manila, is a curious attraction. The building is called Co...
8 Sound Sculptures That Lets Nature Be The Musician
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2016
While most sculptures are intended to be viewed, there are some that strive to stimulate our other senses as well. These eight large scale s...
Inca Tern: The Bird With A Magnificent Moustache
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2016
The Bougainville moustached kingfisher might be the one with word “moustache” in its name but it’s the dark grey plumaged Inca tern of the f...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 8
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Legoland Deutschland Theme P...
155-Year-Old Mouse Trap in a Museum Claims Another Victim
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2016
The University of Reading's Museum of English Rural Life has caught a mouse in a trap, but not on one laid by the museum staff to catch ...
The Bombed-Out St Dunstan in The East Church of London
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2016
One of London’s best kept secret is a small derelict church, or what remains of it, half way between London Bridge and the Tower of London, ...
Gomantong Caves: The Caves of Horrors
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2016
Deep in the steamy jungles of Borneo, in Malaysia, is a massive crack in the limestone outcrop that leads to an intricate system of caves. E...
This Ordinary House Has an Outrageous Interior
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2016
This ordinary looking middle-class house in Newport, Oregon, with creamy white siding, yellowed brick, and a two-car garage blends perfectly...
Pholisma Sonorae: A Strange Looking Flowering Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2016
Pholisma sonorae, commonly known as sand food, is one of the most bizarre wildflowers of North America. Growing out of sand dunes, the flowe...
The Hellish Gold Mines of Serra Pelada
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2016
In the early 1980s, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado travelled to the mines of Serra Pelada, some 430 kilometers south of the mouth ...
Europe's First Underwater Sculpture Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2016
The island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain, has set up of the first set of sculptures in what will be the first completely underwa...
The Mysterious Marree Man of South Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2016
In June 1998 a local pilot flying over the remote South Australian desert discovered an enormous drawing of an Aboriginal man hunting with a...
Satellite Images or Microscopic Photos?
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2016
While going through my daily reading list, one particular image posted on the Tumblr blog Daily Overview, which publishes high quality satel...
The Belogradchik Fortress, Bulgaria
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2016
Located on the north slopes of the Balkan Mountains, close to the northwestern Bulgarian town of Belogradchik, is the Belogradchik Fortress,...
Dominic Wilcox Turns Kids’ Crazy Inventions Into Real Products
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2016
We all have brilliant ideas for products that could make certain chores easier to perform if only they could be turned into reality. With th...
The Carved Stone Balls of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2016
For the last 150 years archeologists have been digging up a peculiar class of objects in north-east Scotland. They are small carved stone ba...
