Project Riese: The Secret Nazi Tunnels in Poland
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 17, 2018
Eighty kilometers to the south of Wroclaw, underneath Poland’s oldest mountain range, the Owl Mountains, lies a massive underground complex ...
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Wojtek: The Bear That Drank Beer And Went to War
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2018
Archibald Brown, the British official at the port of Naples, looked at the roster in his hand and called out the name—“Corporal Wojtek”, but...
Bialowieza: Europe’s Last Primeval Forest
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2017
Before the arrival of humans, much of northeastern Europe was covered by primeval forests that stretched for thousands of kilometers across ...
The Anti-Communist Dwarves of Wroclaw
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2017
Scattered throughout the city of Wroclaw, Poland, are hundreds of small bronze statues of dwarves. They began appearing in the streets in 20...
The Wolf’s Lair, Poland
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2016
Deep in the Masurian woods about 8 km from the small East Prussian town of Rastenburg, lies the ruins of Adolf Hitler’s most secretive bunke...
The Mausoleum of The Martyrdom of Polish Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2016
A beautiful new World War 2 memorial is nearing completion in Michniów in south-central Poland. Set to open in 2016, the Mausoleum of the Ma...
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...
Crooked, Drunken And Dancing Forests
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
A tree, when left to its own device, will normally grow straight. But when the tree is young and its trunk is tender, it can be forced to gr...
The Train to Heaven in Wroclaw
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2015
The Train to Heaven is a monument depicting an old, real steam locomotive standing upright and pointing towards the sky, located at Strzegom...
The Inclined Boat Lifts of Elblag Canal
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2015
The Elblag Canal, also called the Elblag-Ostroda Canal, is a 150-years-old canal in Poland that runs from Elblag to Ostroda. At over 80 km i...
