A Blast From The Past: Episode 20
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2016
A collection of interesting articles from Amusing Planet’s archives. How The Military Hid The Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant During World...
Frying Pan Lake of New Zealand
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2016
The Frying Pan Lake in Waimangu, New Zealand, is one of the largest hot pools in the world. Its acidic waters stay at about 50–60° centigrad...
The Boab Prison Trees of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2016
The Australian baobab tree, a relative to the baobabs of Madagascar and mainland Africa, is a large tree with a big swollen trunk that resem...
Welwitschia Mirablilis: An Extraordinary Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2016
This tangled mess of tattered and withered leaves has been called one of the ugliest plants in the world. While it certainly isn’t pretty, i...
The Schwerbelastungskörper And Hitler’s Grand Plans For Berlin
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2016
On the corner of Dudenstrasse and General-Pape-Strasse in Berlin, between the S-Bahn tracks and a housing estate, stands a massive cylindric...
The Colored Pebbles of Lake McDonald
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2016
The Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana, on the border with Canada, is home to more than 700 lakes, although only 131 of thes...
The Bridge of Sighs
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2016
The Bridge of Sighs, also known as the Ponte dei Sospiri, is one of the most famous bridges of Venice. This curved, fully enclosed bridge is...
Dropping Balls to Tell Time
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2016
Everyday, at five minutes to one, a bright orange ball on the roof of Flamsteed House at Greenwich’s Old Observatory in London, slides half-...
Artist Installs Floating Piers on Italian Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2016
A three-kilometer-long floating walkway made up of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes connect two small islands to the shore on Lake Is...
America’s Oldest Mall Converted Into Micro-Apartments
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2016
The Westminster Arcade, also known as the Providence Arcade, in Providence, Rhode Island, was opened in 1828 as America’s first enclosed sho...
