La Catedral: Pablo Escobar’s Personal Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2023
By 1991, Pablo Escobar had undergone a remarkable journey, starting as a car thief and then evolving into a small-time trafficker and kidnap...
Showing posts with the label Landmarks
Cold Water Geysers
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2023
A typical geyser expels hot water and steam when an underground spring comes in contact with hot rocks heated by magma, causing the water to...
Fernando Traverso's Bicycles
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2023
Throughout the streets of Rosario, a city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe, you will find hundreds of images of bicycles stenci...
The Monument to Soviet Tank Crews
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2023
For many decades, a Soviet tank raised on a pedestal in the center of Prague was a monument to the liberation of the city by the Red Army at...
Dresden’s Tobacco Mosque
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2023
The ‘Tobacco Mosque’ in Dresden, Germany, by the city’s main railway line, is a fascinating structure. The impressive building with a 60-fee...
The Dwarves of Wrocław
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2023
The city of Wroclaw is famous for its charming market square, stunning old houses, and majestic churches. But lurking below near the ground,...
The Ether Monument in Boston
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2023
In a corner in Boston's Public Garden, near the intersection of Arlington Street and Marlborough Street, stands an obscure monument that...
Playa de Las Teresitas: A European Beach Made From Saharan Sand
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2023
Playa de Las Teresitas in Tenerife, Spain, is one of the most popular beaches of the Canary Islands, but the beach is not natural—it was cre...
Ponte dei Trepponti: A Unique 5-Way Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2023
The Ponte dei Trepponti or Trepponti bridge is a rare five-way bridge located in Comacchio, Italy. Although the name “Trepponti”, originatin...
The Red Dog of Pilbara
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2023
Throughout the 1970s, an Australian Kelpie nicknamed Red Dog was frequently found roaming across the vast Pilbara region in Western Australi...
Cosmati Pavement at Westminster Abbey
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2023
In May 2023, following the coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort, Camilla, at Westminster Abbey, the church’s historic Cosmat...
George Spencer Millet: Death by Kisses
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2023
George Spencer Millet must be rolling in his grave for his family chose to include this nugget of information in his gravestone: “Lost life ...
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...
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...
