The Unique Flower Auction at Aalsmeer
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 6, 2016
The Aalsmeer Flower Auction or Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer in Dutch, takes place in the town of Aalsmeer in North Holland near Amsterdam Schiph...
Russky Bridge: Russia’s Billion-Dollar Vanity Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 6, 2016
Throughout the history of civilization, bridges have been constructed to connect cities across waterways and over unfavorable terrain so tha...
The Forsby-Köping Limestone Cableway
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 5, 2016
From the limestone quarry at Forsby in Vingåker municipality, to the cement factory at Köping in central Sweden, once ran one of the world’s...
Asia’s Largest Man-Made Waterfall Opens in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 5, 2016
The largest man-made waterfall in Asia has opened to the public in Kunming in China’s Yunnan Province. The waterfalls is 12.5 meters high an...
The Alphabets From Space
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 5, 2016
In July 2012, while working on a story about wildfires, NASA’s science writer and social media manager Adam P. Voiland spotted a V-shaped pl...
Rainier Tower, or The Beaver Building
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2016
The North American beaver is the lumberjack of the rodent world. With nothing but its four front teeth, the beaver can cut down a small tree...
The Best Drone Photography of 2015
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2016
Drone photography has becoming increasingly popular, and thanks to communities like Dronestagram , drone fliers from around the world are ta...
Buildings That Look Like Stacked Boxes
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2016
With all high rises starting to look alike, some architects are trying out new design forms like twists and circles . A new form that’s gai...
The Battle For The Largest Bonfire in The Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2016
In the last few days of the year leading up to the midnight of December 31, two Dutch teams from the neighboring districts of Scheveningen (...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 3
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2016
A collection of interesting and noteworthy articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year old archives. ...
