A Blast From The Past: Episode 12
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 13, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Cancun Underwater Sculpture ...
Henninger Turm: World’s Tallest Storage Silo With a Restaurant On Top
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2016
Henninger Turm or Henninger Tower in Frankfurt’s Sachsenhausen district was one of this area’s famous landmark, and part of the great skylin...
Women’s World War 2 Memorials
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2016
All wars change the lives of those they touch, but nothing was as transformative and revolutionary as the Second World War, particularly for...
Cisternerne: A Subterranean Water Reservoir Turned Into Art Gallery
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 11, 2016
Buried beneath Frederiksberg Hill in the heart of Søndermarken Park, in Copenhagen, is a massive underground space that once held up to 16 m...
The Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2016
The Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, in the state of Colorado, is one of the world’s most famous dinosaur sites. Discovered in 1877 by Arthur Lak...
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...
