The Round City of Baghdad
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2016
The city of Baghdad was founded in the 8th century as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, by its caliph al-Mansur. The Caliphate had just ...
The Giant Pink Bunny at Colletto Fava
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2016
On the hills of the 5,000 foot high Colletto Fava mountain in northern Italy's Piedmont region, there lies an enormous pink bunny. The t...
The Infinite Bridge in Aarhus, Denmark
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2016
The “Infinite Bridge” is located in Denmark’s second-largest city Aarhus. Designed by Gjøde & Povlsgaard Arkitekter for the 2015 “Sculpt...
Friedrich Bayer Bridge, Sao Paulo
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2016
The Friedrich Bayer Bridge is located in front of headquarters of the German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer, in Sao Paulo, Brazi...
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 ...
