Whitney Plantation: America’s First And Only Slavery Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2016
Whitney Plantation is located near Wallace, in Louisiana, on the historic River Road in St. John the Baptist Parish, less than an hour from...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 22
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. Spectacular Caves and Rocks at Staffa Island The island of Staffa in Scotland is probably best known ...
UNESCO Inscribes 9 New Heritage Sites
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2016
The World Heritage Committee, the cultural arm of the United Nations is currently meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, for its 40th session. The com...
Justo Gallego’s Self Built Cathedral
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2016
About 20 km from Madrid is the small town of Mejorada del Campo. There on a farmland inherited from his family, Justo Gallego MartÃnez, bett...
Bierpinsel: Berlin’s Beer Brush Building
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2016
The Bierpinsel, officially the “Tower Restaurant Steglitz”, was supposed to look like a tree, but it ended up looking like a gigantic brush,...
Bingham Canyon Mine Landslide
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2016
On April 10, 2013, a gigantic chunk of earth and rocks gave away and crashed into the humongous pit created by copper mining at the Bingham ...
The Thousand Shrines of Sahasralinga
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2016
There is a place in the district of Uttara Kannada of Karnataka state in India, where hundreds of shrines of the Hindu god Shiva are carved ...
17th Century Sketches Comparing Human And Animal Faces
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2016
These bizarre sketches were made by French painter and art theorist Charles Le Brun (1619 – 1690) who was declared by King Louis XIV as ...
The $8.5 Million Astolat Dollhouse Castle: World’s Most Expensive Dollhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2016
Appraised at $8.5 million, the Astolat Dollhouse Castle costs more than a fully furnished condo in New York City. But then, this is no ordin...
Colossal Statue of Guan Yu in Jingzhou
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2016
An enormous statue of the ancient Chinese warrior Guan Yu was recently unveiled at a park in Jingzhou city in Hubei province. The statue dep...
