The Witness Trees of The American Civil War
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2017
Across the United States there are hundreds and thousands of trees that have stood around for many centuries and bore witness to the history...
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Old Sarum of Salisbury
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2017
Old Sarum in Salisbury, England, is a historically important archeological site consisting of an Iron Age hillfort and what little remains o...
Hill of the Buddha
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2017
The Hill of the Buddha is a giant Buddha statue located atop a small hill near a cemetery in the Japanese island Hokkaido. The statue was bu...
The Closes of Edinburgh
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2017
The Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, consisted originally of the main street, now known as the Royal Mile, and a large number of small alley...
The Mysterious Erdstalls Tunnels
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2017
Across Europe, there are hundreds of underground tunnels that lead to nowhere and about which no historic records have ever been found. They...
The Art of Deliberate Imperfection
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2017
Some people are perfectionists, going great lengths and through punishing routines to achieve the perfect figure, the perfect score, the ini...
Ytterby: The Village That Chemists Love
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2017
What do the following ten chemical elements have in common? Yttrium Ytterbium Terbium Erbium Gadolinium Thulium Scandium Holmium D...
Elche, The City of Palm Trees
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2017
In the city of Elche, in Spain, there is a large grove of palm trees that’s the only one of its kind in Europe, and one of the largest palm ...
The Stilt Walking Shepherds of Landes
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2017
The Landes region of southwestern France, bordering the Bay of Biscay, is covered by a large pine forest. In fact, it’s the largest ‘maritim...
The Silo Art Trail in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2017
For more than a hundred years, grain silos doting the plains across the Wimmera-Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, have defined the state...
Wooden Churches of Maramures
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2017
In the Maramureș region of northern Romania are a group of almost one hundred Orthodox churches built between the 17th and the 19th centurie...
Castel del Monte, Andria
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2017
On top of a small hill overlooking the comune of Andria, in the Italian region Apulia, stands one of the strangest looking castle. This 13th...
Traboule: The Secret Alleyways of Lyon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2017
Below is a satellite image showing the old quarters of the French city of Lyon, by the river Saone. As you can see, there are a couple of st...
The Backstugas of Sweden
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2017
In a forest in southern Småland, in southern Sweden, there is a small earthen cabin you can rent on Airbnb. The cabin is partially buried in...
Rhythmic Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2017
Rhythmic springs are those springs that exhibit tidal characteristics. In other words, the water level of these springs rises and falls over...
The Otherworldly Colors of Morocco’s Deserts
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2017
It’s amazing what a little change in light can do to a landscape. Blue skies can turn red, orange sand can turn purple. In this photo series...
The Wooden Wagonways of Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2017
Two hundred years before the first steam locomotive carrying passengers chugged out of the Heighington railway station in the English town o...
The Secret World of Number Stations
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2017
Back in the days of Cold War espionage, foreign intelligence agencies used to communicate with agents on the field via shortwave radio. Radi...
World’s First Nuclear Power Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2017
Spread over nearly 900 square miles in the high desert of eastern Idaho, lies the vast campus of the Idaho National Laboratory. Much of the ...
The Pig of Lucerne
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 3, 2017
Below is a photograph of one of Lucerne’s most famous tourist attraction. You may recognize it as the “Lion of Lucerne”— a rock relief sculp...
The Towers of Bologna
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2017
In mediaeval times, the city of Bologna in Northern Italy must have looked not unlike what Manhattan appears today. Hundreds of high-rising ...
SS Richard Montgomery: The Thames’ Ticking Time Bomb
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2017
On 20 August 1944, an American cargo ship named SS Richard Montgomery carrying huge amount of explosives, meant for use in the ongoing Seco...
The Decorative Birdhouses of Turkey
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2017
Turkish societies value animals greatly, especially birds which they believe bring good luck. The Turk's great love for the feathered sp...
