The Topiary Trees of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2017
San Francisco residents have a particularly strong liking for topiary trees, as apparent from these photographs taken by three different pho...
The Giddy House, Port Royal, Jamaica
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2017
On the grounds of Fort Charles in the small town of Port Royal, Jamaica, stands a lopsided building called “the Giddy House”. Half buried in...
The 'Great Stink' of London
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2017
In the summer of 1858, Londoners found themselves in the middle of a big stinking problem. For centuries, the city was abusing River Thames ...
Lake Kavicsos, Hungary
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2017
Kavicsos Lake, or “pebble lake” in Hungarian, is a scenic lake about 2 km across located south of Budapest, just a 30-minute ride away from ...
Canal du Midi, France
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2017
The Strait of Gibraltar between Europe and Africa isn’t the only waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. A thous...
The Model Villages of Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2017
Starting from the late 18th century, many English landowners and industrialists began building villages to provide housing for their workers...
The Mystery of The Longyou Caves
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2017
In 1992, a strangely curious man named Wu Anai, near the Chinese village of Shiyan Beicun in Longyou County, based on a hunch, began to pump...
The Humongous Fungus
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2017
Beneath the soil in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, the United States, lurks a very large fungus that has been slowly weaving...
Paracas Candelabra of Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2017
The Nazca Lines in southern Peru are some of the best known geoglyphs on earth, but they aren’t the only ones in the Nazca desert. About 200...
Herculaneum: Pompeii’s Less Famous Neighbor
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2017
In late August 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius blew its top off and for three days death rained down upon towns, villas and farms surrounding the volc...
