The Horsetail Firefall of Yosemite
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2015
The Horsetail Firefall in Yosemite National Park in California is an amazing spectacle. It’s a seasonal waterfall that flows in the winter a...
Oregon's Lost Lake Disappears Each Summer Down a Hole
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2015
The U.S. state of Oregon has at least 19 lakes named “Lost Lake”, but possibly only one fits the name. This particular Lost Lake is located ...
The Monument to Russia’s Favorite Bus LiAZ-677
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2015
On Saturday August 29, 2015, in the suburban town of Likino-Dulyovo, 98 kilometers northeast of Moscow, a new monument was unveiled. It’s tr...
The Lost Pink and White Terraces of Lake Rotomahana
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2015
In the Rotorua district, in northern New Zealand, about 25 kilometers to the east of the city of Rotorua, were two small lakes known to the ...
The World’s Largest Burls
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2015
Port McNeill is a small town in the North Island region of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Located on the island's north-...
The Yuma Territorial Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2015
Perched on top of a rocky hill overlooking the Colorado River, in the town of Yuma, in the far southwest corner of the state of Arizona, sta...
Pele’s Hair And Pele’s Tears
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2015
Pele's hair are naturally occurring fine fibers of volcanic glass that form when hot molten lava is thrown into the air during explosive...
Pop-up Sandcastle Hotels Open in the Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2015
You may have heard about those temporary ice hotels that Sweden, Norway and some of those near-Arctic-circle countries put up during the win...
The Mysterious Desert Kites
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2015
In the 1920s, pilots of the Royal Air Force flying over the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt saw strange line shapes in the ground that t...
Crown Shyness: When Trees Don't Like to Touch Each Other
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2015
Crown shyness or canopy disengagement is a phenomenon observed in some tree species in which the crowns of neighboring trees of similar heig...
