The Disgusting Food Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2018
A new museum aimed to assault the olfactory senses of visitors and churn their stomach opened yesterday in Sweden’s third largest city, Mal...
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The Stockholm Telephone Tower
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2017
By the late 19th century, the miracle device called the telephone had been invented but the simple concept of undergrounding telephone cable...
Ytterby: The Village That Chemists Love
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2017
What do the following ten chemical elements have in common? Yttrium Ytterbium Terbium Erbium Gadolinium Thulium Scandium Holmium D...
The Backstugas of Sweden
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2017
In a forest in southern Småland, in southern Sweden, there is a small earthen cabin you can rent on Airbnb. The cabin is partially buried in...
The Museum of Failure
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2017
Every successful product launch is usually preceded by a string of failures, but we only remember the winners and ignore the failures and pr...
The Wreck of Swedish Warship Mars
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2017
About 18 km off the coast the Swedish island of Öland, in the Baltic Sea, at a depth of about 75 meters, lies one of the most beautiful ship...
The Mysterious Gotland Grooves
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2017
Scattered throughout the island of Gotland, in the middle of the Baltic Sea, are thousands of stones with strange grooves or furrows cut int...
The Sundial Cannon of Åtvidaberg
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2017
In the not-too-distant past, before the invention of modern timekeeping devices, noontime —the moment when the sun is at the highest positio...
The World's Smallest Monuments
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2017
The Russian city of Tomsk is home to the smallest public monument in the world —a tiny bronze frog, sitting on top of a smooth rock. The scu...
Gävle Goat: The Christmas Goat That Vandals Can’t Keep Their Hands Off
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2016
Every year for Advent, about a month before Christmas, the town of Gavle, in Sweden, builds a giant Christmas goat out of straw. And every y...
