The Gastown Steam Clock
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2017
Not far from Vancouver’s waterfront, in the historic Gastown neighborhood, stands one of the city’s major crowd-drawer—a steam-powered clock...
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Magdalen: The Island of Shipwreck Survivors
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2017
The small archipelago of Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, off the coast of the Canadian province of Quebec, is home to some 1...
Enormous Iceberg Stranded in Canadian Town
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 22, 2017
Icebergs are not a rare sight off the east coast of Canada. Indeed, there is an area stretching from the coast of Labrador to the northeast ...
Project Habakkuk: Britain’s Secret Ship Made of Ice
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2017
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and no time in history was as desperate as the time when the world’s most powerful nations were...
Alert: The Most Northern Settlement in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2017
Located just over eight hundred kilometers away from the North Pole, the community of Alert, on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, in...
The Chemical Valley of Sarnia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2017
These tall chimneys billowing thick, toxic smoke stand on the banks of the Saint Clair River, on the outskirts of the Canadian city of Sarni...
Kitsault: The Ghost Town Where Lights Are Still On But No One’s Home
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2017
Think ghost town and you’ll probably imagine ruins —roofless houses, dirty broken windows, rotting floors, but at Kitsault, on the North Coa...
The ‘Whiskey War’ of Hans Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2016
In the remote north of the Atlantic Ocean, right on the edge of the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean, lies a tiny speck of an island. Nam...
Cheltenham Badlands in Caledon
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2016
The Cheltenham Badlands is an area in Caledon, Canada, consisting of bare, windswept red hills and gullies displaying spectacular colors tha...
The Half House of St. Patrick Street, Toronto
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2016
This old Victorian-era row house on St. Patrick Street, in the heart of Toronto, Canada, has been cut in half with surgical precision. The h...
The Colored Pebbles of Lake McDonald
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2016
The Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana, on the border with Canada, is home to more than 700 lakes, although only 131 of thes...
The Murals of Sherbrooke
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2016
Over the last fifteen years, the city of Sherbrooke, in southern Quebec, Canada, has been trying to animate its old downtown area by creatin...
John Hooper’s Public Art And Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2016
Located in front of Barbour's General Store on King Street in downtown Saint John, in New Brunswick, Canada, is a set of eleven life-siz...
Devon Island: Mars on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2016
Devon Island in Baffin Bay, belonging to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is the largest uninhabited island on Earth, and for good reasons. ...
The Most Visually Impressive Impact Craters on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 3, 2016
It is estimated that the earth’s surface is struck by about 500 meteorites a year, but only about 5 or 6 are large enough to be detected by ...
Skating on The Rideau Canal
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 2, 2016
New Year has arrived and gone. The holidays is almost over and many people have already returned back to their dreaded work and life in gene...
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...
Sam Kee Building: World's Narrowest Office Building
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 30, 2015
The Sam Kee Building, located on 8 West Pender Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as...
Upside Down Houses Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2015
A clichéd yet popular tourist attraction that never fails to amuse is an upside down house, with a faithfully reproduced exterior and interi...
Frank Slide: Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide Now a Tourist Attraction
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2015
In the early morning hours of April 29, 1903, a massive section of limestone broke away from the summit of Turtle Mountain in Alberta, Canad...
