Woodberry Wetlands: A Nature Reserve in The Heart of London
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2016
An old reservoir in the boroughs of Hackney, in north east London, has been transformed into a nature reserve. Called Woodberry Wetlands, th...
Showing posts from April, 2016
The Dance of Zalongo
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2016
Above the village of Kamarina, near Preveza, Greece, is the historic cliffs of Mount Zalongo. It was here in 1803, during the Souliote War, ...
Murud-Janjira Fort, India
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2016
The Murud-Janjira Fort is situated on an oval-shaped rocky island in the Arabian Sea, near the coastal town of Murud, 165 km south of Mumbai...
The Toxic Town of Times Beach, Missouri
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2016
The former town of Times Beach, in Missouri, United States, about 27 km southwest of St. Louis, was founded as part of a strange marketing p...
The Story Behind Ukraine’s “Tunnel of Love”
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2016
Back in 2011, Amusing Planet posted pictures of a mysterious green tunnel of trees covering a section of railway tracks in Ukraine, known as...
The Rock Garden of Chandigarh
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2016
It took years of planning and millions of Rupees to design one of India’s first planned cities, but Chandigarh's biggest tourist attract...
A Statue Dedicated to Sex Workers in Amsterdam
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2016
In Oudekerksplein, or the Old Church's Square, in the heart of Amsterdam’s red-light district of De Wallen, stands a bronze statue of a ...
Floating Markets of Southeast Asia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2016
Floating markets, where goods are sold from boats, are a trademark attraction among the Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Indonesi...
The Floating Guangji Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2016
Guangji Bridge, also known as Xiangzi Bridge, is an ancient bridge across the Han River in Chaozhou, Guangdong province, China. It is renown...
Anping Bridge, China’s Longest Ancient Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2016
Spanning the bay between Jinjiang County and Nan'an County, west of Fuzhou City, China, is the beautiful 12th century Anping Bridge, als...
Robot Monk in China’s Buddhist Temple
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2016
A new monk has joined services at a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Beijing. He moves around the temple, chanting Buddhist mantras, and ...
The Forgotten Era of Moonlight Towers
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2016
Back in the early 19th century, the invention of the dynamo brought promises of an exciting new world ahead, but the most urgent need of the...
The Pyramid of Austerlitz
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 22, 2016
At the highest point of the Utrecht Ridge, in the Dutch village of Woudenberg, stands Europe’s only pyramid. The 36-meter-tall earthen hill ...
The Defence Line of Amsterdam
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 22, 2016
The immense firepower of modern artillery witnessed during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 caused great concern among the Dutch, because ...
The Gilded Churches of Quito, Ecuador
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2016
The historic city of Quito, Ecuador, is remarkable for its many beautiful churches, especially the 17th Jesuit church la Compañía, and the 1...
Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2016
The Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada, United States, is two attractions in one. First, there are ichthyosaur fossils, and second, it ...
The Parthenon of Nashville
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2016
In the late 19th century, the city of Nashville, in Tennessee, the United States, was known to be one of the most refined and educated citie...
Undressed: An Exhibition of Underwear
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2016
Underwear worn by British supermodel Kate Moss, corset worn by American burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, boxers worn by star footballer Davi...
Site A / Plot M: The Buried Remains of The World’s First Nuclear Reactor
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2016
Located within the Palos Forest Preserve, approximately 20 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, in an area named the Red Gate Woods, are two...
Can You Draw a Bicycle From Memory?
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2016
In 2009, Italian/American designer Gianluca Gimini walked up to random strangers and friends and asked them to draw a bicycle from heart. S...
Sulabh International Museum of Toilets
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2016
In a quiet courtyard in the suburbs of New Delhi, inside a low-slung concrete building, the assistant curator and guides of Sulabh Internati...
Ford Rotunda of Dearborn
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2016
In Dearborn, Michigan, across Ford World Headquarters, where is now the Michigan Technical Education Center, there stood the visitor center ...
Sassi di Matera: The Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cave City
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2016
In the Basilicata region, in Southern Italy, is an ancient city named Matera known for its cave houses called “sassi”. The sassi are carved ...
Swords in The Rock, Norway
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2016
On a small hill on the edge of Hafrsfjord, about 6 km from the city center of Stavanger, Norway, stands three enormous bronze swords as monu...
Actun Tunichil Muknal: The Cave of The Crystal Maiden
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2016
The Maya believed that caves, especially those that extend for several kilometers underground, are entries to the underworld or Xibalba, the...
The Luxurious Mausoleums of Manila Chinese Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2016
Walk into the Manila Chinese Cemetery in the Filipino capital and you might think you are visiting a residential suburb. There is a two-way ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 15
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2016
The Grass Roofs of Norway Norwegians have their own way of going green, and quite literally. For hundreds of years houses in Norway have be...
The Amazing Restoration of Samarkand’s Historic Buildings
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2016
While a certain extremist group has been systemically destroying precious ancient monuments in the middle-east, one Islamic city in Central ...
Shark Ray Alley, Belize
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2016
Shark Ray Alley is a shallow sandy-bottomed area in Hol Chan Marine Reserve, off the coast of Belize, so named because of the abundance of n...
Blackhouses of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2016
Hundreds of years ago the highlands of Scotland and Ireland were dotted with a type of dwelling called blackhouses. These were long narrow b...
Palace of The Parliament: The Building of Superlatives
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2016
At the historical center of Romania’s capital city Bucharest, stands the colossal Palace of the Parliament, one of the most expensive and ex...
Red Lotus Lake, Kumphawapi, Thailand
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2016
There is lake called Nong Han Kumphawapi in northeast Thailand, north of the town of Kumphawapi, and about 50 kilometers away from Udon Than...
Mooning of The Amtrak
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2016
For the last 36 years, the city of Laguna Niguel, California, has been host to a bizarre tradition called the Mooning of the Amtrak. Every y...
Gangi, The Town That Gave Itself Away
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
The Italian town of Gangi, built atop a small bump-like hill in an wooded valley in central Sicily, about 80 kilometers southeast of Palermo...
Montreal Biosphere
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
The Montreal Biosphere, located on Saint Helen's Island in Montreal, Canada, is a museum dedicated to the environment. It was designed a...
Lenin's Hut in Razliv
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
In July 1917, after an armed demonstration by the Bolsheviks in St. Petersburg against the Russian Provincial Government turned violent, the...
Clingstone: The House on The Rock
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2016
Perched on top of a small, rocky island in Narragansett Bay, near Jamestown, Rhode Island, the United States, is a three-story, cedar shingl...
Secret Rooms Inside Abandoned Sewers
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2016
Italian street artist Biancoshock has just finished installing a couple of secret, miniature rooms, hidden under manhole covers, inside an a...
The Walls of Avila
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2016
The ancient city of Avila is located in central Spain, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, about 100 km to the west of Madrid. ...
Moche Sex Pots
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2016
The Moche people lived in northern Peru near present-day Moche and Trujillo, between 1,900 to 1,200 years ago, long before the Inca Empire. ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 14
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Beautiful Adhesive Tape Art ...
The Rabbit Proof Fence of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2016
Stretching from north to south across Western Australia, dividing the entire continent into two unequal parts, is a flimsy barbed-wire fence...
National Poo Museum Opens in Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2016
No, its not an April Fool’s joke. Britain has indeed opened a museum dedicated to poo. The museum, which is surprisingly not the first of it...
