Mystery of The Lost Amber Room
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2016
In the grand palace of Catherine I, the second wife of Peter the Great and Empress of Russia, there once existed a magnificent golden room a...
Showing posts from August, 2016
Denki Buro: The Electric Baths of Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2016
Many public bath houses in Japan have special pools lined with live metal electrodes for those peculiar bathers who would rather have actual...
Chaka Salt Lake: Mirror Of The Sky
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2016
Chaka Salt Lake near the town Chaka in Wulan county is one of the most beautiful lakes of the Qaidam Basin in Northwest China’s Qinghai prov...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 25
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2016
bFrom the archives of Amusing Planet. Island Of The Dolls: Mexico’s Creepiest Place The Island Of The Dolls (Isla de las Muñecas), located...
Boiling Lake of Dominica
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2016
The Morne Trois Pitons National Park in the island country of Dominica, in the Caribbean, is an area of significant volcanic activity. Locat...
‘Fallen Star’, University of California, San Diego
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2016
Teetering on the corner and edge of Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, is a small cottage that appears...
NASA’s Mars Explorers Recruitment Posters
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2016
Continuing with the theme of imaginary space-based scenarios, NASA has released a new set of posters calling for explorers to join them on t...
Polar Stratospheric Clouds And Their Dark Secret
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2016
Sometimes deep into the winter, after sunset or before dawn, sheets of unbelievably bright and vividly colored clouds can be seen forming ag...
Casa di Giulietta: Juliet’s House in Verona
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2016
Shakespeare’s famous play “Romeo and Juliet” maybe a work of fiction, but that hasn’t stopped hundreds of thousands of romantics from making...
Subway Pushers of Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2016
The Japanese rail network is known throughout the world for its superiority and punctuality. In the capital city Tokyo, nearly 40 million pa...
Campo Del Cielo Meteorite Field
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2016
About 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, a huge chunk of space rock fell in Argentina, but it didn’t fell in one piece. It broke up as it entered the...
Monument to The Conquerors of Space
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2016
In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the United States in the space race. They launched the first artificial satellite of e...
The Dead Cities of Syria
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2016
Scattered across the vast Limestone Massif, in the northwest of Syria, between the Orontes and Afrin Rivers to the west and the Aleppo/Hama ...
Sperrgebiet: The National Park You Can’t Visit
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2016
In southwestern Namibia lies a vast area that’s been off-limits to visitors for more than a century. It stretches along the Namibian coast f...
Artist Creates Record-Breaking Mural For Rio Olympics
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
While athletes compete for various titles at Rio’s ongoing Olympic Games, one Brazilian graffiti artist Eduardo Kobra is attempting to enter...
Faro a Colon: The Columbus Lighthouse
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
In Santo Domingo Este of Dominican Republic, is a towering monument dedicated to Christopher Columbus. It’s called “Faro a Colon”, which is ...
Inside Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market: The World’s Biggest Fish Market
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
Sandwiched between Sumida River and the upmarket Ginza shopping district, in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, is a large wholesale market for fruit...
Girard Henderson’s Luxurious Cold War Era Underground Bomb Shelter
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2016
During the Cold War, the US government launched a country-wide effort to prepare its citizens for a possible thermonuclear war. Children wer...
Survivor Trees Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2016
Every now and then, a calamity —either natural or man-made— strikes humanity and just when it appears that no living being could survive the...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 24
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. What’s Cooking? - Cutaway Food Photography by Ryan Matthew Smith Ryan Matthew Smith’s photo series “M...
Beehive Fences: Using Bees To Keep Elephants Away From Crops
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2016
Protecting crops from raiding elephants is not an easy task for Africans farmers where wild elephants often roam free, until a group of Brit...
Cretto di Burri: The Concrete Labyrinth of Gibellina
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2016
On the Italian island of Sicily, about 70 km from the capital city Palermo, is a huge labyrinth of concrete hugging the side of a hill like ...
The Ancient Yew Forest of Kingley Vale
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2016
Tucked between Stoke Down and Bow Hill, near the village of West Stoke about three miles north west of Chichester, in West Sussex in souther...
Vietnamese Water Puppet Shows
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2016
For centuries, Vietnamese kids and grown-ups alike have been entertained by a unique kind of puppet show —one that is performed on water. Th...
America’s Strangest Conventions
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2016
For the last three years, American photographer Arthur Drooker has been to a dozen conventions across the country, photographing some of the...
Sultan Amir Ahmad Bathhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2016
The Sultan Amir Ahmad Bathhouse in Kashan, Iran, is a 16th century public bathhouse built during the time of the Safavid empire, which ruled...
Cedars of Lebanon, The Cedars of God
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2016
The Lebanon Cedar or cedrus libani is one of the most majestic trees of the world. They grow exclusively on Mount Lebanon, a mountain range...
Kaninchenfeld: The Brass Rabbits of Berlin
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2016
Berlin was once divided into East and West Berlin by a massive concrete wall, the infamous Berlin Wall, that created a 155-km-long strip of ...
World’s Thinnest Observation Tower i360 Opens in Brighton
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2016
A shiny steel and glass, doughnut-shaped viewing platform rose up against a slender pole on the seafront of the English town of Brighton, ye...
US Wildlife Service Finds Similarities Between PokemonGo Characters And Actual Wildlife
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2016
Although I couldn’t care less about the recent PokemonGo foolery that’s appeared to have seized the world over, I find it highly amusing how...
China’s ‘Transit Elevated Bus’ Drives Above Traffic Jams
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2016
China has unveiled a futuristic ‘straddling bus’ that’s capable of driving over other cars stuck in nightmarish traffic jams which has becom...
Achille Knapen’s Air Well
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2016
Billboards and water bottles that produce drinking water out of thin air might look like breakthrough inventions, yet the principles behin...
Berat, The City of Thousand Windows
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2016
The city of Berat in south-central Albania, is renowned for its historic architecture and scenic beauty. A UNESCO World Heritage site, Berat...
The Pirate Island of Île Sainte Marie
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2016
The island of Sainte Marie, or Nosy Boraha, is a narrow granite island located five miles off the remote east coast of Madagascar. This post...
The Cliff House of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2016
Perched on the edge of a cliff, overlooking Ocean Beach, in San Francisco, is one of California’s oldest restaurant famous for its panoramic...
Unusual Drawbridge Railway Crossing in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2016
South of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, are a number of drawbridge-like crossings that carry 2-feet tracks of the Sugar Cane Railway ...
