The Grave of Harry Potter in Ramle, Israel
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2023
In the British Commonwealth war cemetery in Ramle, Israel, is a grave that has been receiving quite a lot of footfall from tourists in the p...
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Danube Sinkhole: Where a River Vanishes
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2023
The European river system is complex and extensive. Two of its main rivers, the Rhine and the Danube, despite not having their sources relat...
Matsugaoka Tōkei-ji, The Divorce Temple
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2023
For over six hundred years, the Matsugaoka Tōkei-ji, in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, had served as a refugee for wome...
The Himalayan Towers of China
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2023
In the Western Sichuan province, between central China and the Tibetan Autonomous Region, there exist hundreds of mysterious stone towers, s...
Sable Island: The Graveyard of The North Atlantic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2023
About 300 km east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, lies a narrow, crescent-shaped sandbar, whose existence has been a bane on shipping for centuries...
Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings: The Building That Changed The World’s Skyline
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2023
In 1797, an extraordinary building went up in Shropshire that would change the skylines of our cities forever. Described as “the grandfather...
Biertan’s Matrimonial Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2022
Tucked away in the church grounds of a quiet village in Romania, there is a small cottage known as the ‘matrimonial prison’. It was here tha...
Stompie The Tank
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2022
For the 1995 movie Richard III , director Richard Loncraine towed an old Soviet T-34 tank to the center of London and had it drive through a...
Elephant Memorial in Teluk Intan
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 16, 2022
Elephants are reputed to have a great memory. They are also reputed to never forgive. There have been tales where elephants have sought re...
Tomb of Eve, Jeddah
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2022
Did you know that Eve, that same Biblical Eve whom God supposedly created out of Adam’s rib, remains buried in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? Some ...
