The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 31, 2014
On June 6, 1912, after five days of violent earthquakes on the Alaska Peninsula, one of the most gigantic eruptions of the 20th century occu...
Showing posts from December, 2014
Chinese Water Meter Reader Captures Unexpected Moments on The Streets
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 31, 2014
32-year old Tao Liu works as a water meter reader for the Hefei Water Supply Company. He travels up and down the city on his motorbike and i...
Kiribati, The True Land of The Rising Sun
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2014
When the sun sets on the evening of December 31 this year, and the world awaits the arrival of the new year, a tiny island country on the ex...
El Ateneo Grand Splendid: A Beautiful Bookstore in a Former Theater
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2014
Housed in a magnificent early 20th century theater, El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is one of the biggest bookstores in...
Somerset Bridge Bermuda - The World’s Smallest Drawbridge
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2014
Somerset Bridge is a small bridge located in the western parish of Sandys, in Bermuda, connecting Somerset Island with the mainland. The sto...
Best of 2014
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 26, 2014
It’s that time of the year again, when we look back and reflect on some of the most popular and interesting stories we covered over the last...
Ice Volcanoes of The Great Lakes
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 24, 2014
During the winter months, when the Great Lakes in North America freezes over, a unique feature called “ice volcanoes” start forming along th...
People of the Twenty-First Century by Hans Eijkelboom
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 24, 2014
Over the course of the last 20 years, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom has been lurking and shooting along the world's busiest streets...
Punta de Tarifa: The Southernmost Point of Continental Europe
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2014
Punta de Tarifa is the southern tip of the town of Tarifa, located in the province of Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in Sp...
Creative Burger Designs By Fat & Furious Burger
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2014
French graphic designers Thomas Weil and Quentin Weisbuch have been making outrageous burgers for the last two years. What started as a rand...
Luxury Singaporean Apartment is Equipped With Sky Garages
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2014
A newly opened high-rise apartment building in Singapore is offering owners the luxury of parking their cars in elevated car porches, right ...
Shoes on The Danube Promenade
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2014
On the banks of the Danube River in Budapest, about 300 meters from the Hungarian Parliament building, lie sixty pairs of rusted old-fashion...
Glacier Mice: A Rolling Stone Does Gather Moss
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2014
The old proverb that states that “a rolling stone gathers no moss” has been passed along for so long that people generally believe that its ...
The Four Corners Monument
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2014
The Four Corners Monument is the only place in the United States where you can be in four different states at the same time -Arizona, Colora...
The Prime Meridian At The Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2014
The Prime Meridian, also known as the Greenwich Meridian, passes through longitude 0° 0' 0'' and on its journey from pole to pol...
Hydrospeeding on The Aletsch Glacier
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2014
Hydrospeeding or riverboarding is a form of extreme sports where participants lie prone on rigid foam boards and ride the rapids. Riverboard...
Longmen Grottoes, China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2014
Longmen Grottoes are a series of Buddhist cave temples carved into the rock on the banks of the Yi River, south of the city of Luoyang, in H...
The 1,800-Km-Long Hand-Dug Grand Canal of China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2014
The Grand Canal is a series of waterways in eastern and northern China starting at Beijing and ending at the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang pr...
Tollund Man, The 2,400 Year Old Bog Body
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2014
Over the past few centuries, men harvesting peat in European bogs have discovered the preserved remains of hundreds of human corpses called ...
Y-40 Deep Joy: World's Deepest Swimming Pool
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2014
Y-40 “Deep Joy” is the world's deepest pool, at 42 meters deep, a height equivalent to that of a 14-storey building. The pool measures 2...
Bubble Gum Walls: America’s Stickiest Attractions
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2014
Chewing gum litter is a major problem in western countries. According to a study conducted in 2005, Americans chew, on average, 160-180 piec...
The Fishing Village of Al Max, Alexandria
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2014
Al Max (also spelled El Max) is one of the neighbourhoods of the city of Alexandria in Egypt, located in the Department of Amriya district i...
The Saar Loop at Mettlach
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2014
The Saar River rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine, in France, then flows northward through western Germany t...
Herodium: The Palace and Tomb of King Herod
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2014
Located 12 km south of Jerusalem, in the Judean desert, Herodium looks like an extinct volcano, but it really is a fort built by King Herod ...
Padrão dos Descobrimentos: The Discoveries Monument in Lisbon
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2014
The Portuguese were prolific explorers. Starting from the early 15th century, under the sponsorship of prince Henry the Navigator, several P...
The Peeing Statues of Brussels
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2014
One of the most iconic symbols of Brussels is not a majestic bridge or a tower or a cathedral, but a tiny statue of a little boy happily pis...
The Needles of Isle of Wight
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2014
The Needles is a row of three detached masses of chalk that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, in UK, close...
Ebenezer Place, The Shortest Street in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2014
“Blink and you’d miss Ebenezer Place,” writes Anne Ward, author of Nothing to See Here: A Guide to the Hidden Joys of Scotland , a guide boo...
Moulins on Glaciers
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2014
Just like rainwater dissolves the bedrock on the Earth’s crust and form sinkholes, meltwater on a glacier’s surface can melt ice and form si...
The Snow Monkeys of Jigokudani
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2014
Jigokudani is located in the valley of the Yokoyu River, in Nagano Prefecture, in Japan, at an elevation of 850 meters. Literally “hell’s va...
Cape Agulhas: The Place Where Two Oceans Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2014
When Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias rounded the rocky headland of South Africa’s Cape Peninsula in 1488, he became the first European t...
The Iconic Gold Hill of Shaftesbury
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2014
Gold Hill, in the town of Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset, is a picturesque steep cobbled street. The street was made famous by ...
Patrick Dougherty’s Twig Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2014
North Carolina-based artist Patrick Dougherty has gained an international reputation for weaving tree saplings into massive, swirling forms...
Pearl-Qatar, A Luxurious Artificial Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2014
The Pearl-Qatar in Doha, Qatar, is a luxurious residential complex that is being developed on an artificial island, off the coast of Doha’s ...
Gubbio’s Enormous Christmas Tree on Mount Ingino
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2014
Every year on Christmas, the small medieval town of Gubbio, in northern Italy, lights up the world’s biggest Christmas tree on the slopes of...
Auckland, The City of Volcanoes
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2014
Auckland, the largest and most populous city of New Zealand, straddles a volcanic field that contains no less than 50 volcanoes. These volca...
