The Orange Rocks of Bay of Fires
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
The Bay of Fires, on the northeastern coast of Tasmania in Australia, is a large bay that extends for about 30 km from Binalong Bay in the s...
The Lost Villages of St. Lawrence
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
In 1954, the United States and Canada jointly embarked on a massive engineering project that involved the creation of a 600-km-long navigabl...
The Brown Dog Affair
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2016
In a secluded spot near the Old English Garden, in London’s Battersea Park, is a small bronze statue of a terrier. The statue was erected in...
Siq, Petra’s Spectacular Gorge
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2016
The ancient city of Petra, located in the heart of the mountainous desert of southern Jordan, had different approaches in the past. One poss...
London’s Deep Level Air Raid Shelters
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2016
When the Second World broke out in Europe, and London became the prime bombing target, people began to pour into the platforms of the London...
Colma, The Town of The Dead
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2016
South of San Francisco, near Daly City, lies the small town of Colma where the dead outnumbers the living by a thousand to one. It’s less th...
Jal Mahal: Jaipur’s Submerged Water Palace
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2016
Submerged in the waters of an artificial lake, in the “pink city” of Jaipur, in the state of Rajasthan, India, is the beautiful marbled pala...
Hess Triangle: The Smallest Piece of Private Property in New York City
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2016
At the southwest corner of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue, in front of the entrance to the Village Cigars store, there's a small ...
The Restored Castle of Matrera
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2016
Restoring an ancient monument is a delicate business. Do you shore up an existing wall, or redo it completely in modern concrete? When the c...
The Historic Dutch Ship Batavia, And Its Blood-Curdling History
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2016
Moored at Bataviawerf, in Lelystad, in the Netherlands, is an authentic replica of a 17th-century ship named Batavia that once belonged to t...
