Neft Dasları: A City Built On Oil Platforms
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2016
Far out into the Caspian Sea, a hundred kilometers away from the Azerbaijani capital Baku, lies one of the most incredible settlements in th...
Villagers Scrap a Living Out of Abandoned Diamond Mine in Brazil
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2016
Deep in the heart of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, along the banks of the Rio Jequitinhonha, rural miners explore the massive open pi...
The Circular Laguna Garzon Bridge in Uruguay
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 26, 2016
When building bridges, engineers and architects don’t always look for the shortest possible crossing. The new ring-shaped bridge across Lagu...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 6
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year-old archives. Cool Movie Illu...
Would You Live in a Luxury Resort That Was Once a Concentration Camp?
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2016
That’s the question angered family members of those who were imprisoned at a sea fort in the Adriatic Sea is asking, when the government app...
Underwater Museum at Cape Tarkhankut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2016
About a hundred meters off the coast at Cape Tarhankut, the westernmost part of Crimea, at a depth of a ten to twelve meters is a unique mus...
The Ruins of Yugoslav Ministry of Defence Building in Belgrade
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2016
In 1999, about a dozen countries under the umbrella of NATO launched a military attack against Yugoslavia, which they said was an operation ...
World’s Most Beautiful And Outstanding Piers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2016
Piers were originally built for the purpose of getting people and cargo from the boat to the shore without getting their feet wet, before th...
The First Flower Blooms in Space
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2016
A bright orange zinnia has grown for the first time in space, in zero gravity, and without soil. The zinnia, an edible flowering plant, was ...
Circumzenithal Arcs Or Upside Down Rainbows
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2016
Have you ever seen an inverted rainbow with its curved back towards the ground and ends pointing up, like a smile in the sky? Some people ca...
