The Ancient Aqueducts of Nazca Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2016
Dotting the landscape across the dry valleys of southern Peru, near the city of Nazca, an area famous for the mysterious Nazca lines, are la...
The Haytor Granite Tramway
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2016
To the north of Haytor Rocks, on the eastern edge of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon, are the disused remains of an old granite quar...
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...
