Wakakusa Yamayaki: The Mountain Burning Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 25, 2016
Fireworks are a great way to celebrate any occasion, but like NuanQuan’s molten iron throwing festival , the Japanese city of Nara ( the cit...
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 25, 2016
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village is tucked away in a small residential neighborhood of Simi Valley, California. In an area one-third of...
The Valley of Balls, Kazakhstan
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 23, 2016
The valley of balls or Torysh, as it’s called in Kazakh, is located at the Northern tip of the Western Karatau, close to the town of Shetpe ...
The Smoking Hot Springs of Beppu, Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 23, 2016
The Japanese island of Kyushu is a hotbed of geothermal activity, thanks to the country’s most active volcano Mt Aso, that the island is hom...
Colossi of Memnon: The ‘Singing’ Statues
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2016
The Colossi of Memnon, also known as Colossus of Memnon, are two massive stone statues on the west bank of the River Nile, opposite the mode...
Lava Lakes: The Exposed Guts of Volcanoes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2016
Most volcanoes have a deep inner chamber of molten rocks, but this chamber is typically capped shut by cooled, solid rock. But sometimes the...
The Mysterious Mima Mounds
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2016
In the prairies near Olympia, in Washington, in northwestern United States, thousands upon thousands of grass-covered humps bulges out of th...
The Indestructible Bust of Pablo Iglesias
Anonymous
Jun 20, 2016
A little off the tourist trail in the northern barrio of Madrid lies a reproduction of a bust of Pablo Iglesias Posse. Founder of both the S...
Famous Porcelain Tower of Nanjing Rebuilt
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2016
The lost Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, ranked one of the seven wonders of the medieval world, is back in Nanjing more than a hundred and fifty...
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...
