La Boca: Buenos Aires’ Colorful District
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2016
The neighborhood of La Boca, in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, is famous for two things —the football stadium La Bombonera, and El C...
The Town of Bull Puns
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2016
One hundred sixty kilometers north of Wellington, in New Zealand, at the junction of State Highways 1 and 3, lies the small town of Bulls. Y...
The Salt Valley of Añana
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2016
Salado Valley, in the town of Añana, in northern Spain, is rich in salt but the terrain is unwieldy. Especially, there is a shortage of flat...
Pheasant Island: The Island That Changes Sovereignty Every Six Months
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2016
Less than six kilometers before river Bidasoa, near the French-Spanish border, empties into the Atlantic Ocean, there lies a small river isl...
The Astronaut Beach House
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2016
Before astronauts get suited up and launched into space, they spends their final days relaxing with their wives and kids in a private beach ...
Temppeliaukio Church, Helsinki
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2016
In the Töölö neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland, in the middle of an ordinary residential square, a scene from the Steven Spielberg's mov...
Struve Geodetic Arc: The 2,820 Km Line That Produced The First Accurate Measurement of The Earth’s Size
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2016
From the northern coast of Norway to the southern coast of Ukraine runs a chain of survey triangulation points that together forms the Struv...
The Sunken City of Baiae
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2016
The ancient Roman city of Baiae, on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, was once a popular coastal resort famous for its idyllic loca...
Mapparium: The World’s Only Inside-Out Globe
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2016
The Mapparium at Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, is a huge, 30 foot tall globe of bronze and glass that has no parallel an...
The 870-Year Old Historic Sausage Kitchen of Regensburg
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2016
One hundred twenty five kilometers north of Munich lies the old medieval town of Regensburg, situated at the confluence of three rivers —the...
