Fort Alexander, Saint Petersburg
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2016
The city of Saint Petersburg at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, was once protected by a string of forts across the gulf. ...
Spaso-Kamenny Monastery
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2016
The Spaso-Kamenny Monastery is located in a small island in the middle of Kubensky Lake, in Ust-Kubinsky District of Vologda Oblast, about 5...
Abandoned Kennicott Copper Mining Town, Alaska
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2016
The old mining town of Kennicott in the US state of Alaska is located on the south slopes of Wrangell mountain close to the Kennicott Glacie...
Hassan Tower, Morocco
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
In the late 12th century, Sultan Yaqub al-Mansur, the third Caliph of Almohad Dynasty that ruled over West Africa and Iberia, ordered the co...
Sayhuite Stone: An Ancient Hydraulic Scale Model of The Inca Empire?
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
About 47 kilometers east of the city Abancay, in southern-central Peru, lies the archeological site of Sayhuite or Saywite, described by his...
The Great Ziggurat of Ur
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
In the middle of the third millennium BCE, the ancient Mesopotamians began building huge stepped platforms out of fired bricks called ziggur...
Caves of Nottingham
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2016
The city of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England, is spread over a soft sandstone ridge which forms low hills to the north of the River Tr...
Chattahoochee Plantation, The 10-Foot Wide City
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2016
In the early 1950s, Atlanta, the most populous city in the U.S. Georgia, was growing at an incredible rate spilling its borders into the su...
Charyn Canyon: The Grand Canyon of Central Asia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2016
Tucked away between the Ketmen and Ulken-Bogut mountain ridges in the southeast corner of Kazakhstan, close to the border with China, lies t...
Bathing Machines of The 19th Century
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2016
Back in the 18th and 19th century, the ladies just couldn't strip to their swimwear and run towards the waves on the beach. There are ce...
