The Mysterious Phenomenon of Bamboo Flowering
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2015
Bamboos are the fastest-growing plants on Earth. A typical bamboo grows as much as 10 centimeter in a single day. Certain species grow up to...
Showing posts from September, 2015
Monte Kali: A Mountain of Table Salt
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2015
Monte Kali is an unusual landmark in the small town of Heringer in eastern Hesse, Germany. It’s a spoil heap containing nothing but sodium c...
M-185: The Only US Highway Where Motor Vehicles Are Banned
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2015
Highway M-185 in the U.S. state of Michigan, is the safest road in America because it is the only state highway in the nation where motor ve...
Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2015
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the pa...
The Morning Glory Clouds of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2015
The Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia is home to one of the world's most extraordinary meteorological phenomenon. From late Sep...
China Opens Longest Glass-Bottomed Suspension Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2015
Last year, we reported a new attraction in China — a high-altitude glass bottom bridge in Shiniuzhai National Geological Park in Pingjiang ...
The New Croton Dam And Spillway
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2015
The New Croton Dam, across the Croton River, near Croton-on-Hudson, about 35 km north of New York City, was built between 1892 and 1906 to d...
Landscape Agate: These Silica Rocks Resemble Beautiful Natural Scenes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2015
Agate is a crystalized form of silica, made up primarily of chalcedony, a type of quartz that is composed of very fine intergrowths of the m...
Petaloudes: The Valley of Butterflies
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2015
The Valley of Butterflies, also known as Petaloudes Valley, is located on the western side of the Greek island of Rhodes, about 25 kilometer...
Japan's Fruit-Shaped Bus Stops
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2015
Bus stops come in all shapes and sizes . In the small Japanese town of Konagai, in the outskirts of Isahaya, in Nagasaki Prefecture, they c...
The Mingun Pagoda And The World’s 2nd Largest Bell
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2015
The Mingun Pahtodawgyi or Minigun Paya in the town of Mingun, approximately 10 km northwest of Mandalay in central Myanmar, is a massive unf...
The Memphis Pyramid
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2015
Ever since the city of Memphis, in the southwestern corner of the US state of Tennessee, was named after the ancient Egyptian capital that s...
Food Landscapes by Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2015
“ Processed Views ” is a thought provoking photo series by Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman who used familiar American junk food to create...
The Davis Toad Tunnel
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2015
Of all wildlife crossings man constructed to minimize human-wildlife conflict, one which caught more attention of the humans and media than...
Alaska's Magnificent Coastline
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2015
Alaska has an extensive coastline, longer than that of all the other US states combined. Some estimate it to be more than 49,000 miles lone,...
The Mystery of Beach Cusps
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2015
Beach cusps are one of the strangest natural formation along the water’s edge. They are made up of a rhythmic pattern of small cusps and bay...
The Horsetail Firefall of Yosemite
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2015
The Horsetail Firefall in Yosemite National Park in California is an amazing spectacle. It’s a seasonal waterfall that flows in the winter a...
Oregon's Lost Lake Disappears Each Summer Down a Hole
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2015
The U.S. state of Oregon has at least 19 lakes named “Lost Lake”, but possibly only one fits the name. This particular Lost Lake is located ...
The Monument to Russia’s Favorite Bus LiAZ-677
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2015
On Saturday August 29, 2015, in the suburban town of Likino-Dulyovo, 98 kilometers northeast of Moscow, a new monument was unveiled. It’s tr...
The Lost Pink and White Terraces of Lake Rotomahana
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2015
In the Rotorua district, in northern New Zealand, about 25 kilometers to the east of the city of Rotorua, were two small lakes known to the ...
The World’s Largest Burls
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2015
Port McNeill is a small town in the North Island region of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Located on the island's north-...
The Yuma Territorial Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2015
Perched on top of a rocky hill overlooking the Colorado River, in the town of Yuma, in the far southwest corner of the state of Arizona, sta...
Pele’s Hair And Pele’s Tears
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2015
Pele's hair are naturally occurring fine fibers of volcanic glass that form when hot molten lava is thrown into the air during explosive...
Pop-up Sandcastle Hotels Open in the Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2015
You may have heard about those temporary ice hotels that Sweden, Norway and some of those near-Arctic-circle countries put up during the win...
The Mysterious Desert Kites
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2015
In the 1920s, pilots of the Royal Air Force flying over the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt saw strange line shapes in the ground that t...
Crown Shyness: When Trees Don't Like to Touch Each Other
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2015
Crown shyness or canopy disengagement is a phenomenon observed in some tree species in which the crowns of neighboring trees of similar heig...
The Manpupuner Rock Formations
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2015
The Manpupuner rock formations are a set of 7 gigantic stone pillars located on a flat plateau, west of the Ural mountains in the Troitsko-P...
The Tear Drop Memorial: The Forgotten Monument to The Victims of 9/11
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2015
“We will never forget”, is the phrase that has been famously repeated over and over again since the devastating attack on New York City on S...
The Hammetschwand Lift: Europe’s Tallest Outdoor Elevator
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2015
The lookout point at the summit of Switzerland’s famous mountain Bürgenstock offers stunning panoramic views of the Alps, Lake Lucerne, and ...
The Thornborough Henges
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2015
The Thornborough Henges is one of the most important pre-historic site in Britain, yet scarcely visited by tourists. It’s an earthwork compl...
The Mississippi River Basin Model
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2015
After decades of devastating flood in the Mississippi River Basin, Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1928 which called for immediate ...
Nebra Sky Disk: The World’s Oldest Star Map
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 9, 2015
In 1999, three grave robbers were combing through a forest near Nebra, about 180 km south-west of Berlin, Germany, using metal detectors whe...
The Chullpas of Sillustani
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2015
Sillustani is located 34 km northwest of the city of Puno, on the shore of beautiful Umayo Lagoon, in Peru. It is one of the many sites in t...
The Anavilhanas Archipelago
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2015
The archipelago of Anavilhanas is located on the Rio Negro river, approximately 70 km upstream from Manaus, Brazil, at a place where the riv...
The Lion’s Mound at The Battlefield of Waterloo
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2015
The historic Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, took place near the town of Waterloo, in present day Belgium, in the municipalities of Bra...
The Cirkelbroen Bridge in Copenhagen
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2015
Copenhagen has a new artistic landmark, a bridge called Cirkelbroen, designed by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and opened last...
The Glittering Gold Museum in Bogota
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2015
The Gold Museum in Bogota is one of Columbia’s most important museums with an extraordinary collection of Pre Hispanic gold work on display....
The Neon Museum of Las Vegas
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2015
Not too far from the Las Vegas strip lies a junkyard filled with huge neon signs – signs that once proudly adorned such famous nightclubs an...
The Maunsell Sea Forts
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2015
The Maunsell Sea Forts in the estuaries of rivers Thames and Mersey were built to help defend the United Kingdom during the second World War...
Hacienda Nápoles: The Home of a Former Drug Lord, Now a Theme Park
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2015
About 180 km south-east of Medellin, is Puerto Triunfo, a small municipality and town in the department of Antioquia. It was here that Colom...
Encontro das Aguas - The Meeting of Waters
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2015
About 10 kilometers from the inland city of Manaus in northern Brazil, the black Rio Negro river, which flows through the city, meet the san...
Dasht-e Kavir, The Great Salt Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2015
Dasht-e Kavir, also known the Great Salt Desert, is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian plateau, about 300 kilometers east-sou...
The Strange Beauty of Soviet Bus Stops
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2015
Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig travelled through the length and breadth of the former Soviet Union to document a curious phenomen...
The Newspaper Rock in Utah
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2015
Newspaper Rock is a 200 square foot rock surface in San Juan County, Utah, that is covered by hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs — rock ...
The Trestles of Myra Canyon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2015
The Myra Canyon section of the Kettle Valley Railway in southern British Columbia, Canada, is a 9.6 km section of railway tracks along the f...
