The Murals of Sherbrooke
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2016
Over the last fifteen years, the city of Sherbrooke, in southern Quebec, Canada, has been trying to animate its old downtown area by creatin...
The Alpine Lakes And Waterfalls of Jiuzhaigou
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2016
The Jiuzhaigou Valley, located at the foot of the snow-capped Minshan Mountain, in the north of Sichuan province, China, is a place of excep...
The Carnac Stone Alignments
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2016
Out of hundreds of megalithic sites across Europe, only a few has achieved popularity, such as the Stonehenge. But other sites are no less i...
The Goose Girl of Göttingen
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2016
Located halfway between Hamburg and Frankfurt, near to the Harz mountains, the town of Göttingen is best known for its university which was ...
The Drive-Through Trees of California
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2016
The giant redwoods of Northern California are the biggest trees in the world with trunks so thick that it’s possible to carve a small drivew...
The Mystery of Synchronous Fireflies
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2016
In the first few weeks of June, visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, United States, are treated to a rare natural spe...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 19
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2016
A collection of interesting articles from Amusing Planet’s archives. Tall Tale Postcards of the Twentieth Century During the early years o...
Fliegeberg: Otto Lilienthal’s ‘Fly Mountain’
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2016
One of the major inspiration to the Wright brothers was the work of German pioneer of aviation, Otto Lilienthal, who repeatedly and successf...
The Temples of Humankind, Damanhur
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2016
In 1978, a group of about fifteen people belonging to a mysterious spiritual community called Damanhur, lead by its founder Oberto Airaudi, ...
The Devil’s Nose Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2016
When Ecuador President General Eloy Alfaro took office in 1895, and announced that a new railway line would be built connecting the coastal ...
