9 Wacky Festivals Celebrated in the Month of August
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2012
Two months ago we highlighted some very strange festivals observed during the month of June . In this edition we look at some equally outlan...
Chinese Swimming Pools, the Most Crowded in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2012
Swimming has long been a symbol of physical strength in China, yet outside the country's elite sports schools competitive swimming is no...
Erwin Wurm’s Fat Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2012
Erwin Wurm is one of Austria's most important and internationally famous sculptors known for his humorous approach to art. In 2003, E...
4 Amazing Shell Beaches Around the World
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2012
Seashells, which are usually the dead empty shells of marine mollusks, often wash up on the shores but there are certain beaches that routin...
Aerial Photos of Beaches by Gray Malin
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2012
Photographer Gray Malin travels around the world from the U.S. to Brazil to Australia shooting the most beautiful beaches while flying abov...
Statues of the Louvre Dressed Up as Modern Day Hipsters
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2012
French art director Alexis Persani along with French photographer Leo Caillard has created a series of in vogue sculptures, where using phot...
Palindromo Meszaros Captures the Aftermath of Hungary’s Worst Toxic Spill
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2012
In October 2010, the small town of Ajka, Veszprém County, in western Hungary, witnessed an environmental disaster that is considered the wor...
Adorable Rat Musicians by Ellen van Deelen
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2012
Using food treats, Dutch photographer and artist Ellen van Deelen taught her rodent pets Moppy and Witje to pose with a variety of tiny pro...
Magical Floating Faucet Fountains
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2012
The floating tap fountain is a clever illusion. It consist of a faucet mysteriously hovering above a pool or basin with an endless supply of...
Ice Cave In Skaftafell, Iceland
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2012
Ice caves are temporary structures that appear at the edge of glaciers. They look amazingly beautiful from the inside. This particular cave ...
Seven Coloured Earths, Mauritius
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2012
The Seven Coloured Earths, a small region near the village of Chamarel, Mauritius, is a geological curiosity and a major tourist attraction ...
Gruner See, Styria: A Park That Turns Into a Lake in Summer
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 3, 2012
Grüner See, literally “Green Lake”, is a lake in Styria, Austria, near the town of Tragoss, located at the foot of the snow-capped Hochschwa...
Sunflower Festival in Zama, Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2012
Zama is a city located in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, famous for its extensive sunflower fields. Every year in summer the flowers bl...
The Twist and Turns of Transfagarasan Road, Romania
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2012
The Transfagarasan mountain road or national road 7C is the second-highest paved road in Romania, and considered by some to be the most dram...
Colorful Floating Umbrella Installation at Agueda, Portugal
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2012
A large number of colorful umbrellas hang above a street at Águeda, a municipality in Portugal, as a part of a public art installation. Asid...
Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2012
Halsingland is a small province in central Sweden, bordering the Gulf of Bothnia, where a large number of highly decorated wooden farmhouses...
Viganella, the Italian Village that Brought the Sun Down to the Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2012
Viganella is a small village in Italy located at the bottom of a deep valley some 130 km north of Milan. All seems fine in Viganella except ...
Eszter Burghardt Creates Fantastic Miniature Landscapes Using Wool
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2012
Eszter Burghardt is a Canadian-Hungarian artist based in Vancouver BC, Canada, who uses colored wool and light to create miniature landscap...
Supertree Grove at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 26, 2012
Gardens by the Bay, Singapore's premier urban outdoor recreation space right next to Mariana Bay Sands , unveiled a new attraction last ...
Magnificent Glacier Waterfalls in Svalbard, Norway
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2012
Svalbard, which means "cold coasts", is an archipelago in the Arctic, constituting the northernmost part of Norway as well as of E...
Guinea Pig Games Calendar 2013
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2012
Maverick Arts Publishing has created a new calendar depicting guinea pigs going for gold at a huge sporting event like the Olympics. The Gui...
The Incredible Mountain City of La Paz, Bolivia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2012
La Paz whose full name is Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia and the second largest city in the country (in p...
Spectacular Granite Spires at Torres del Paine National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2012
Torres del Paine or Towers of Paine are three massive granite pillars jutting out some 2,800 meters above the Patagonian steppe at South Ame...
Zlatni Rat - The Golden Horn Beach, Croatia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2012
The Golden Horn, also called Zlatni Rat, is the most spectacular of Croatia's beaches. This vast, golden pebble beach, almost 580 yards ...
Backwaters of Kerala, India
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2012
Kerala, a state in southern India, is well-renowned for its backwater system – a network of interconnected canals, lagoons, rivers, lakes an...
Decorated Gas Tanks Of Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2012
Giant gas storage tanks are usually an eye sore, but not in Japan. For the Japanese, they are giant piece of canvas. Many gas companies will...
Robert Buelteman’s Electrifying Images of Electrocuted Flowers
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2012
San Francisco Bay Area photographer Robert Buelteman takes extraordinary images of flowers subjected to 80,000 volts of electricity. But he...
The Mob Museum: The Museum of Mobsters, Las Vegas
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2012
The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, or The Mob Museum as it’s called, is located in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Dev...
Old Dragon’s Head: Where The Great Wall of China Meets the Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2012
The Great Wall of China is one of the most amazing piece of architecture and the most ambitious building project ever attempted in the histo...
Boryeong Mud Festival 2012, South Korea
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2012
The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place during the summer in Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South ...
The Sunken Forest of Lake Kaindy
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2012
Kaindy Lake is a 400 meter long lake in Kazakhstan’s portion of the Tian Shan Mountains located 129 km from the city of Almaty. The lake was...
Portraits Made With a Single Unbroken Line
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2012
Reddit user who calls himself “renbo” shared some of his unique artwork on the social news site yesterday. The Redditor draws portraits tha...
8 Deserts That Aren’t Really Deserts
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2012
Deserts take up nearly one-third of the Earth's land surface, yet only 41 countries in the world (one-fifth) are hosts to all the desert...
The Underground Tunnels of Cu Chi, Vietnam
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2012
During the war in Vietnam, thousands of people in the Vietnamese province of Cu Chi lived in an elaborate network of underground tunnels. Th...
Wildlife Crossings Around the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 10, 2012
Rapid deforestation and excessive human intervention into wildlife habitat has lead to frequent straying of wild animals into human habitati...
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 2012
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 10, 2012
Joey Chestnut won his sixth straight Fourth of July hot dog-eating contest at Coney Island, downing 68 hot dogs and buns on Wednesday, beati...
Tobacco Sniffing at World Snuff Championship
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 10, 2012
About 300 competitors consisting of both men and women tried to shove as much as stuff as possible up their noses to win the 18th World Snuf...
Jaw Dropping Long Exposure Photographs From Space
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2012
These amazing long exposure photographs were taken by astronaut Don Pettit from aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 31....
Colorful Rolling Grasslands of Palouse
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2012
The Palouse is a region of the northwestern United States, encompassing parts of southeastern Washington, north central Idaho and, in some d...
Food Sculptures by Dan Cretu
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2012
“Photographer and visual artist Dan Cretu recreates everyday objects out of fruits and vegetables. With his sculptures, Dan transforms comm...
The Art of Japanese Manhole Covers
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2012
One of the coolest attraction in Japan lies beneath the feet. All across the country, manhole covers are custom made for individual towns an...
Sheffield, Tasmania: The Town of Murals
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2012
The town of Sheffield is tucked away in the foothills of the majestic Mount Roland some 23 km inland from Devonport on the north-west coast ...
Valley of Geysers in Kamchatka, Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2012
The Valley of Geysers, located in the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia is the only geyser field in Eurasia and the second largest concentration...
Airplanes That Carry Other Airplanes
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2012
A cargo aircraft also known as freight aircraft is specially designed for carrying goods, rather than passengers. They are usually devoid of...
World's Largest Coffee Bean Portrait Unveiled in Moscow
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2012
Russian artist and sculptor Arkady Kim, along with five assistants, has unveiled the world's largest coffee bean mosaic that used up to ...
11 Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2012
Ever since man learned to grow their own food and rear cattle, they have been living in permanent to semi-permanent settlements with certain...
Namaqualand’s Miraculous Spring Flowers
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2012
Namaqualand is an arid region in Namibia and South Africa, extending along the west coast over 600 miles and covering a total area of 170,00...
Lake Reschensee and the Drowned Village of Graun
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2012
A fourteenth century medieval tower rises out of Lake Reschensee, only a few miles from the Swiss and Austrian borders, in Italy. The steepl...
Wuppertal Schwebebahn: Germany’s Hanging Train
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2012
Wuppertal Schwebebahn or Wuppertal Floating Tram is a suspension monorail in Wuppertal, Germany. First opened in 1901, the Wuppertal Schwebe...
Niagara Falls Light Show
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2012
From the beginning of November until the first week of January, the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights takes place. During these two mo...
