Achille Knapen’s Air Well
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2016
Billboards and water bottles that produce drinking water out of thin air might look like breakthrough inventions, yet the principles behin...
Berat, The City of Thousand Windows
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2016
The city of Berat in south-central Albania, is renowned for its historic architecture and scenic beauty. A UNESCO World Heritage site, Berat...
The Pirate Island of Île Sainte Marie
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2016
The island of Sainte Marie, or Nosy Boraha, is a narrow granite island located five miles off the remote east coast of Madagascar. This post...
The Cliff House of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2016
Perched on the edge of a cliff, overlooking Ocean Beach, in San Francisco, is one of California’s oldest restaurant famous for its panoramic...
Unusual Drawbridge Railway Crossing in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2016
South of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, are a number of drawbridge-like crossings that carry 2-feet tracks of the Sugar Cane Railway ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 23
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. Tashirojima - The Cat Island of Japan The Cat Island, officially called Tashirojima, is a small islan...
Ochtinská Aragonite Cave
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2016
The Ochtinská Aragonite Cave, in southern Slovakia, is one of the few caves in the world where aragonite crystals are found. There is one in...
The Reticulated Lagoon of Mataiva Atoll
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2016
Mataiva is a coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, in French Polynesia, located about 311 km north of the island of Tahiti. The ring-shape...
Angels Flight: The World’s Shortest Railway
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2016
Angels Flight is a historic narrow gauge funicular railway located in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California. Dubbed t...
The Chimneypots of Paris Rooftops
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2016
A trivial but iconic architectural element of Europe are the chimneypots that adorn the rooftops of houses and buildings. In Paris, in parti...
