The Amazing Restoration of Samarkand’s Historic Buildings
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2016
While a certain extremist group has been systemically destroying precious ancient monuments in the middle-east, one Islamic city in Central ...
Shark Ray Alley, Belize
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2016
Shark Ray Alley is a shallow sandy-bottomed area in Hol Chan Marine Reserve, off the coast of Belize, so named because of the abundance of n...
Blackhouses of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2016
Hundreds of years ago the highlands of Scotland and Ireland were dotted with a type of dwelling called blackhouses. These were long narrow b...
Palace of The Parliament: The Building of Superlatives
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2016
At the historical center of Romania’s capital city Bucharest, stands the colossal Palace of the Parliament, one of the most expensive and ex...
Red Lotus Lake, Kumphawapi, Thailand
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2016
There is lake called Nong Han Kumphawapi in northeast Thailand, north of the town of Kumphawapi, and about 50 kilometers away from Udon Than...
Mooning of The Amtrak
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2016
For the last 36 years, the city of Laguna Niguel, California, has been host to a bizarre tradition called the Mooning of the Amtrak. Every y...
Gangi, The Town That Gave Itself Away
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
The Italian town of Gangi, built atop a small bump-like hill in an wooded valley in central Sicily, about 80 kilometers southeast of Palermo...
Montreal Biosphere
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
The Montreal Biosphere, located on Saint Helen's Island in Montreal, Canada, is a museum dedicated to the environment. It was designed a...
Lenin's Hut in Razliv
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
In July 1917, after an armed demonstration by the Bolsheviks in St. Petersburg against the Russian Provincial Government turned violent, the...
Clingstone: The House on The Rock
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2016
Perched on top of a small, rocky island in Narragansett Bay, near Jamestown, Rhode Island, the United States, is a three-story, cedar shingl...
