The Dragon Temple in Samphran
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2016
About 40 km west of Bangkok lies the district of Samphran, where there is a rather odd-looking Wat or Buddhist temple. The temple complex ha...
The Novaya Zemlya Effect
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2016
The Novaya Zemlya Effect is a curious optical phenomenon named after an archipelago located north of Russia, in the Arctic Ocean. It was her...
The Feng Shui Skyscrapers of Hong Kong
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2016
In Hong Kong, a city with one of the most beautiful skyline , the plan and design of a building is determined as much as by architects and e...
Havre Beneath The Streets
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 8, 2016
In the late 19th century, when the Great Northern Railway laid down its line between Seattle and Minneapolis, a distance of more than 1,600 ...
The Abandoned NSA Listening Station at Teufelsberg, Berlin
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 8, 2016
At the end of the Second World War, Berlin had over 400,000 homes destroyed and an estimated 75 million cubic meters of rubble that needed t...
The Mysterious Caves of Mustang, Nepal
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2016
The Kingdom of Mustang, bordering the Tibetan plateau, is one of the most remote and isolated region of Nepalese Himalaya. Once an independe...
Martini Junction: A Miniature Railway Hidden in The Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2016
In the small but densely wooded Needham town forest, outside Boston, lies a secret attraction — a miniature model railway consisting of 120 ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 11
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 6, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. The Most Expensive Coffee in...
The Por-Bazhyn Fortress
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2016
In a small island in the center of a remote Lake Tere-Khol, high in the mountains of southern Siberia, close to the Mongolian border, lies t...
The Most Visually Impressive Impact Craters on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 3, 2016
It is estimated that the earth’s surface is struck by about 500 meteorites a year, but only about 5 or 6 are large enough to be detected by ...
