Kattenstoet: The Cat Throwing Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2017
For the last sixty years, the city of Ypres in Belgium has held a popular “Cat Parade” that draws visitors from around the country. Kattenst...
Stock im Eisen: Vienna’s Nail Tree
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2017
At the corner of the extravagant 19th century mansion, Palais Equitable, in the city of Vienna, Austria, is a glass case behind which is the...
Victor Noir’s Mysterious Erection
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2017
The Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is home to many famous dead people, including Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison. The grave of Oscar Wilde, in...
The Sourtoe Cocktail: A Drink Garnished With A Human Toe
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2017
In Dawson City, by the Yukon River, up north in Canada, there is a bar where you can order a shot of whiskey garnished with a real, dehydrat...
The Gastown Steam Clock
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2017
Not far from Vancouver’s waterfront, in the historic Gastown neighborhood, stands one of the city’s major crowd-drawer—a steam-powered clock...
Magnitogorsk: Russia’s Steel Heart
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2017
At the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains in Russia, about 140 km west of the border with Kazakhstan, there are some hills that a...
The Way Sperm Whales Sleep
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2017
Swiss wildlife photographer Franco Banfi and a team of scuba divers were following a pod of sperm whales off the coast of Dominica Island in...
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 ...
