Woodhenge: Stonehenge’s Sister Circle Made of Wood
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2015
Less than 2 miles north-east of the famous Stonehenge stood another Neolithic-age monument but made of timber. Although the wood is long gon...
Frank Slide: Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide Now a Tourist Attraction
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2015
In the early morning hours of April 29, 1903, a massive section of limestone broke away from the summit of Turtle Mountain in Alberta, Canad...
Elephant Foot Glacier
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2015
The Elephant Foot Glacier in northeastern Greenland, looks like a bowl of batter that has been poured over a pan. The sheer pressure of the ...
The Secret ‘Plot E’ of Oise-Aisne American Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2015
The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, in Picardy in northern France, contains the graves of just over 6,000 American soldiers who d...
The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2015
The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur is located approximately 40 kilometers south of Cairo. It is one of the unusual pyramids of ancient Egypt, but u...
The Fire Lookout Trees of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 5, 2015
In many forest areas in the United States, Canada and Australia, there are fire lookout towers manned by persons called the "fire looko...
Gasometer Oberhausen: An Exhibition Hall in a Former Gasometer
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 5, 2015
The Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany, was constructed in the late 1920s to store excess gas produced by the coal and steel industry in the R...
Florida’s Radioactive Fountain of Youth
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 4, 2015
In the corner of Marion and Taylor, in the town of Punta Gorda, in Florida, is a public water fountain that tourists and locals alike have b...
Pikeville: The City That Moved a Mountain
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 4, 2015
Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, in Kentucky, along the Levisa Fork — a tributary of the Big Sandy River — lies the thriving city of Pi...
The Graveyard of Fallen Monuments
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 4, 2015
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, so did thousands of statues all across the Union. Crowds gathered with hammers and cranes and pulle...
