The Ice of Lake Baikal
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2015
Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, remains covered with ice for almost five months a year. Every winter as the temperature plummets below zero...
Showing posts from December, 2015
Kobe Luminarie Light Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2015
One of the best display of lights in entire Japan takes place in Kobe during Kobe Luminarie. The event is held every year from early to mid-...
A Daredevil Aerial Walkway Over a Tea Park in China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2015
What’s more dangerous than a glass-bottom bridge ? A bridge without a bottom, of course! Such an aerial walkway buttressed by only ropes ha...
The Hall of Mosses
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2015
The Hall of Mosses is a short hiking trail located in the Hoh Rain Forest on the Olympic Peninsula in the west of Washington state, USA. The...
The Painted Cliffs of Maria Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2015
The beautifully patterned sandstone rocks of Painted Cliffs are one of Maria island’s most popular attraction. The mountainous island locate...
Yanweizhou Wetland Park, China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2015
Located in the heart of Jinhua City in central Zhejiang province in eastern China, is a natural riparian wetland where the Wuyi River and Yi...
Iceland’s Most Beautiful Waterfalls
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2015
Iceland is often called the land of waterfalls. Indeed, there are literally hundreds of these natural beauties all over the country. From th...
The Bath Tubs of Mystic Hot Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2015
At Mystic Hot Springs in Monroe, Utah, hot water comes out from deep underground at a scalding 75 degrees degrees Celsius at a rate of about...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 2
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 27, 2015
A collection of interesting and noteworthy articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year old archives. ...
The Christmas Tree Worm
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 24, 2015
Scientifically that are called spirobranchus giganteus , but they are better known by their colloquial name — Christmas tree worm. The worm ...
The Diamond Building at The University of Sheffield
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2015
The University of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England, has opened a new landmark building called “the Diamond”. It is named after its dist...
Devil’s Slide, Utah
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2015
The Devil’s Slide in Utah, the United States, looks like a giant playground slide fit only for the Devil. The Slide consist of two parallel ...
Billy Tripp's Mindfield
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2015
In the town of Brownsville in western Tennessee, is a baffling architectural wonder called “The Mindfield” created by local artist Billy Tri...
Modernist Sand Castles by Calvin Seibert
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2015
New York based sand artist Calvin Seibert has been sculpting sand for the last 30 years, but his love affair started much much earlier when ...
The Latte Stones of Mariana Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2015
Throughout most of the Mariana Islands, a crescent-shaped archipelago in the western North Pacific Ocean near Japan, a peculiar kind of mega...
The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2015
The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA, looks like a monumental piece of modern art. A great wh...
The Great Stalacpipe Organ Creates Music From Cave Stalactites
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2015
The world’s strangest musical instrument is located in one of the most unlikely places in the world — deep underground, inside Virginia'...
The Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2015
The city of Rio de Janeiro has opened a new “experimental museum” called the Museum of Tomorrow devoted to exploring the possibilities of a ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 1
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2015
A collection of interesting and noteworthy articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year old archives. ...
Yipao: Colombia’s Bizarre Jeep Parade
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2015
The Jeep is Colombia’s most iconic mode of transportation, especially in the coffee growing regions where farming is an integral part of lif...
This is Egypt’s Only Waterfalls, And its Man-Made
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2015
The valley of Wadi El-Rayan, 65 km southwest of Fayoum city, in Egypt, is home to two large artificial lakes created to divert excess agricu...
The Rooftop Racetrack of Fiat’s Lingotto Factory
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2015
The Lingotto building in Turin, Italy, is a massive half-kilometer long reinforced concrete structure, five stories tall, that once housed t...
The Jail Tree of Wickenburg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2015
In the town of Wickenburg in Arizona, there is a 200-year old mesquite tree that according to legend, served as the town’s “hoosegow” betwee...
Do Walking Palm Trees Really Walk?
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2015
A recently published article on BBC’s website mentions a certain palm tree that has allegedly developed a rather unique ability unbecoming ...
Places Where Three Time Zones Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2015
When Italian mathematician Quirico Filopanti first sounded the idea of time zones in his book Miranda! published in 1858, he proposed that ...
The Historic Palace of The Fon of Bafut And His One Hundred Wives
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2015
The town of Bafut in Northwest Cameroon is one of only two regions in Cameroon still ruled by a chief with traditional power structures. Th...
5 Unusual Circular Buildings
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2015
Inspired by the symbolism of the circle and the sphere, architects have been designing circular buildings since the ancient times. Round tow...
The Black Eggs of Owakudani
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2015
Owakudani or “the Great Boiling Valley” in Hakone, Japan, is hardly the ideal tourist spot. It’s a large volcanic caldera formed around 3,00...
The Booming Ice Chasm of The Canadian Rockies
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2015
Booming Ice Chasm is a stunning ice cave in the Crowsnest Pass area of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta. The cave is so called for it's i...
NASA's Abandoned Launch Sites
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2015
The Mercury, Gemini and the Apollo Missions of the late 1950s and 60s still remain one of NASA’s greatest achievements — one that enabled hu...
Hole N' The Rock, Utah
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2015
Some dads build their kids tree houses, but in the treeless desert of southeastern Utah, Albert Christensen’s only possible alternative was ...
What Happens When The Grid Meets The Curvature of The Earth?
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2015
In the late 18th century, when American land surveyors were laying down the grid system —the network of perpendicularly intersecting streets...
The Mysterious Stone Columns Along Crowley Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2015
After California’s Crowley Lake reservoir on the upper Owens River in southern Mono County was completed in 1941, strange column-like format...
The Smoked Corpses of Aseki, Papua New Guinea
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2015
We tend to associate mummies with ancient Egypt, but a lot of culture around the world practiced mummification. The Anga tribe of the Aseki ...
Wuzhen: The Ancient Chinese Water Town
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2015
Located in the center of the six ancient water towns south of Yangtze River, in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, Wuzhen is the most beautif...
Dig for Crystals at Oklahoma's Great Salt Plains
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2015
The Great Salt Plains in Alfalfa County, in northwestern Oklahoma, the United States, is the only place in the world where hourglass-shaped ...
The World’s Largest Pipe Organ at Boardwalk Hall
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2015
The historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the city’s most important convention center. All big events in Atlantic City ar...
20 Most Beautiful Observation Towers
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2015
Observation Tower in Jurmala, Latvia “The Observation Tower in Jurmala” is located within the Dzintaru Park in Jurmala, Latvia. The 38-mete...
The Accidental Bombing of Boise City
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2015
The United States Army has its fair share of embarrassments, like losing nuclear bombs and accidentally dropping one on the backyard of a So...
Malham Cove Waterfall Brought Back to Life After 200 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2015
The natural limestone amphitheater Malham Cove in the village of Malham, North Yorkshire, England, was carved by a waterfall carrying meltwa...
The Crack in The Ground, Lake County
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2015
The bluntly named “Crack in the Ground” is a volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep in Lake County, central Oregon, Uni...
The World’s Oldest Bird is 64, And She Just Laid an Egg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2015
Meet Wisdom, the world’s oldest known banded bird in the wild. She is 64 years old. Wisdom is a Laysan albatross, a large seabird that range...
East Meets West in China’s New Hybrid Building
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
In the past few years, China’s replica business has gone beyond fake Puma shoes and mobile phones. The country is now making headlines with ...
The Floating Forest of Homebush Bay, Sydney
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
The affluent suburb of Homebush Bay on the south bank of the Parramatta River, in the inner west of Sydney, was once the dumping ground for ...
The Sculpted Hedges of Schönbrunn Palace
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
The Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, is one of Europe’s most impressive Baroque palaces and an important architectural, cultural and hi...
The Marina Towers Observatory in Swansea is Shaped Like a Spaceship
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2015
This peculiar shaped building resembling a spaceship on its launch pad is located at the end of the promenade in the Maritime Quarter of Swa...
The Ginkgo Avenue in Tokyo
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2015
Ginkgo biloba, also known as the maidenhair tree, is widely cultivated in many urban areas around the world as an ornamental and shade tree....
The Amphitheatre of El Jem
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2015
The Amphitheatre of El Jem is located in the town of El Jem or Thysdrus, as it was known in Roman time, in central Tunisia. Modeled after th...
The Neskowin Ghost Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2015
In the small coastal town of Neskowin in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States, somewhere between Lincoln City and Pacific City, are the r...
The Book Mountain in Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2015
Close to the Port of Rotterdam, in Spijkenisse, is a public library that manifests itself as a mountain of books on the town’s market square...
