The Chandelier at Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
A magnificent chandelier hangs under the dome of the main entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the world's largest muse...
The Sand Covered Church of Skagen
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2014
About 2 km southwest of the town center of Skagen, in Denmark, is a brick church half buried in sand. Known as Old Skagen Church or The Buri...
The Crooked House of Windsor
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
While many crooked houses are deliberately built crooked for visitor attraction, the one that stands at market square in Windsor, in England...
Historian Discovers 800 Year Old Doodles in Old Books
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
Some human behavior never change, such as the urge to doodle in the margin of a book. Historian Erik Kwakkel discovered this simple truth wh...
The Surreal World of Google Earth by Clement Valla
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
Brooklyn-based artist Clement Valla scours Google Earth looking for anomalies. They aren’t visible right away, but when the viewpoint is in ...
Terrifying Glass-Bottomed Bridge Opens in China
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
China’s latest attraction is a glass-bottomed suspension bridge that straddles two rocky peaks, 300 meters apart, in Pingjiang county, in th...
35,000 Walruses Come Ashore in Alaska Due to Lack of Sea Ice
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
The brown patch, on the photo below, is a congregation of an estimated 35,000 walruses that came ashore on a beach near Point Lay, an Inupia...
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2014
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the largest building in the world dedicated to the containment and preservati...
Plimoth Plantation: A Living Museum of a 17th Century English Colony in America
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2014
In the early 17th century a group of separatists, who came to be known as the Pilgrim Fathers, fled the volatile political environment in En...
The Pier of Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2014
Old Orchard Beach is a seven-mile stretch of beach located on the inner side of Saco Bay on the Atlantic Ocean, in Maine, the US. It is a po...
