Wyld's Great Globe
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 3, 2018
The famous British cartographer and former Member of Parliament, James Wyld, had a brilliant plan to promote his mapmaking business. The Gre...
The Chapel of Prosthetics, New Orleans's St Roch Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2018
Beyond the tombstones, at the back of St. Roch cemetery in the US city of New Orleans, Louisiana, lies the shrine of St. Roch, dedicated to ...
The Ruins of St. Paul's Church, Macau
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2018
The city of Macau in Southern China might be best known for its casinos and luxury hotels, but its most treasured icon is actually a church,...
Wojtek: The Bear That Drank Beer And Went to War
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2018
Archibald Brown, the British official at the port of Naples, looked at the roster in his hand and called out the name—“Corporal Wojtek”, but...
The Triple Bridge of Pontarfynach
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2018
About 15 km outside Aberystwyth, in Wales, is a small village named Pontarfynach, meaning “the bridge on the Mynach”. As the name suggest, t...
Bir Tawil: The Land No Country Wants
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2018
Wedged between the borders of Egypt and Sudan is a small parcel of land that is truly unique in this world. It is one of the last unclaimed ...
The Delicate Art of Cobweb Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2018
Who could have thought that the delicate, fine, silky threads of a spider’s cobweb could be woven into a canvas strong enough to withstand t...
Whale Graveyards
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 22, 2018
Movement of the earth’s crust over millions of years have drastically changed the geography of the planet such that what is land now was onc...
The Immovable Ladder of Jerusalem’s Church of The Holy Sepulchre
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2018
Underneath one of the arched windows of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of Jerusalem, there is an old wooden ladder casual...
The Ships Buried Under San Francisco’s Streets
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2018
Beneath the streets of San Francisco’s financial district lie the remains of dozens of sailing ships that once brought people to San Francis...
