Phlegraean Fields: The Italian Supervolcano Ready To Blow
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2018
Just to the west of Naples, in Italy, is an area riddled with craters and cones. Jets of steam and sulfurous gases vent continuously from fi...
The Ancient Iranian Salt Mummies
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2018
In northwestern Iran, near the villages of Hamzehli, Mehrabad and Chehrabad, in Zanjan province, is a large salt dome protruding into the su...
The Canadian Town Called Asbestos
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2018
The asbestos mine in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Photo credit: Denis-Carl Robidoux/Flickr At the heart of the triangle made by the three Can...
The Jefferson Grid
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2018
The vast majority of America’s western land is divided into a lattice-work of farms, towns and forests. This grid pattern was first propos...
The Meteorite That Crashed Into A Car
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2018
The Peekskill meteorite car sitting at a collector’s garage in Peekskill. Photo credit: Ryan Thompson/Flickr On October 9, 1992, a brill...
Sungbo's Eredo: Africa’s Biggest Monument Nobody Has Heard Of
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2018
Deep in the Nigerian rainforest, there was once an immense kingdom surrounded by a huge earthen wall and moat. Built during the Middle Ages,...
The Boneyard of Colon Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2018
The Colon Cemetery in Havana, Cuba, named after Christopher Columbus, is well known for its many elaborately sculpted memorials and mausoleu...
The Valley of Names
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2018
For over seventy years, people have been driving out in their RVs to a remote desert area near the city of Yuma, in the US state of Arizona,...
The Chapel Inside a Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2018
Santa Margarida is a freato-magmatic volcano located in the Spanish county of Garrotxa, in Catalonia. Some 11,500 years ago, the earth’s cru...
Killed Negatives of The Great Depression
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2018
During America’s Great Depression, the Information Division of the U.S. Farm Security Administration sent out an army of photographers to d...
