How The Atomic Tests Looked Like From Los Angeles
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 9, 2016
Between 1951 and 1992, the United States conducted 928 atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the city of...
The Telescope That Was Too Big To Use
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2016
Somewhere inside the historic building of Paris Observatory, on the banks of River Seine, is stored away, in packing crates, some of the big...
The Half House of St. Patrick Street, Toronto
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2016
This old Victorian-era row house on St. Patrick Street, in the heart of Toronto, Canada, has been cut in half with surgical precision. The h...
Quiver Tree Forest, Namibia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2016
The Quiver Tree Forest is located about 14 km north-east of the town of Keetmanshoop, on the road to the small village of Koës, in southern ...
The Megaliths of Bada Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2016
About 15 km to the south of Lore Lindu National Park on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in an area known as Bada valley, there are severa...
The Tree That Was Arrested
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2016
In the Landi Kotal army cantonment area in present-day Pakistan, there is a banyan tree that is kept chained to the ground as if to prevent ...
The Mysterious Toynbee Tiles
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2016
For the last three decades, somebody has been secretly leaving strange, cryptic messages in dozens of cities all over the United States and ...
Frozen Ice Balls of Lake Michigan And Stroomi Beach
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2016
Every winter, on the shores of Lake Michigan in the United States, as well as on Stroomi beach in northern Tallinn, Estonia, hundreds of fro...
Londoners ‘Celebrate’ Great Fire By Setting Wooden Model on Fire
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2016
A massive wooden replica model of 17th century London was set ablaze on the River Thames on Sunday night to mark the 350th anniversary of th...
Pietra Paesina: Stones That Resemble Ruined Landscape
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2016
In the Northern Apennine mountain areas of Italy, around the city of Florence in Tuscany, a rare kind of limestone is found called “pietra p...
