Intriguing Biodiversity at El Angel Ecological Reserve in Ecuador
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2013
El Angel is a small village located in the province of Carchi, in Ecuador, approximately 170 km north of Quito and situated on the border wi...
Giant Pinks Slugs of Mount Kaputar
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2013
I have particularly strong distaste towards anything slimy , and these giant snails of Mount Kaputar, in northern New South Wales, Australia...
Houtong Cat Village, Taiwan
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2013
Houtong is a small mining town located in Rueifang District of Taiwan, a district renowned for its rich, well-preserved railway culture with...
Star-Shaped Fort Bourtange in Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2013
In the 15th century, during the age of gunpowder when the cannon came to dominate the battlefield, a new style of fortification evolved in E...
Pearl River Tower: The Most Energy Efficient Skyscraper
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2013
While many buildings claim to being green by incorporating a single eco-friendly technology into their design, the Pearl River Tower in Guan...
The Kissing Dinosaurs of Erenhot, China
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2013
In the far north of China on the Sino-Mongolian border, near the town of Erenhot (also known as Erlian), you will find the statues of two to...
Hyper Realistic Wood Sculptures by Tom Eckert
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2013
Arizona-based artist Tom Eckert creates incredibly lifelike sculptures entirely out of wood, and then painted. Working primarily with bassw...
LOLCats From Yesteryears: Photographs by Harry Whittier Frees
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2013
LOLcats, for those uninitiated, is an Internet meme of funny cat pictures accompanied with an amusing caption, often idiosyncratic and gramm...
Pancake Ice
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2013
Exploring Tom Gill’s mesmerizing pictures of frozen icy world led me to discover a peculiar kind of ice today. Pancake Ice is circular in s...
Frozen Lighthouses of Lake Michigan
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2013
Environmental and landscape photographer Tom Gill has been documenting the natural and man made wonders of the southeastern portion of Lake...
Researcher Grows Microscopic Flowers by Controlling Crystallization
Kaushik Patowary
May 31, 2013
Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have found a way to shape microscopic crystals into complex and beauti...
Aiguille du Midi, France
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2013
The Aiguille du Midi is a 3,842 meter tall mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. The name "Aiguille du Midi" trans...
Psychotria Elata or Hooker’s Lips: The Most Kissable Plant
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2013
These gorgeous pair of red, luscious lips belong to a plant known as Psychotria elata, a tropical tree found in the rain forests of Central ...
Farming Algae in Hutt Lagoon, Western Australia
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2013
Hutt Lagoon is a salt water lake near the coast, just north of the mouth of the Hutt River, in Western Australia. The water of the lake is b...
SMART Tunnel in Kuala Lumpur: A Storm Water Tunnel With Built-in Motorway
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2013
Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur is regularly subjected to flash floods after heavy rains that remain for three to six hours, flooding the...
Ol Doinyo Lengai: The Coolest Volcano in the World
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2013
Ol Doinyo Lengai is an active volcano located in Arusha Region, Tanzania, rising majestically from the East African Rift Valley depression t...
A Pile of Nuclear Waste Now a Tourist Attraction in Weldon Springs, Missouri
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2013
In Saint Charles County, Missouri, near Weldon Spring, adjacent to Highway 40, lies an enormous mound of rocks, rising out of the ground lik...
Food Cut in Half: Photography by Beth Galton
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2013
New York-based food photographer Beth Galton , together with food stylist Charlotte Omnès, took these amazing photographs of different dishe...
Kazuki Yamamoto’s Incredible 3D Coffee Latte Art
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2013
Japanese latte artist Kazuki Yamamoto has taken coffee art to an impressive new level. While latte artists around the world are drawing oohs...
The Shipwrecks of Cayman Islands
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2013
The Cayman Islands are made up of three islands - Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. They lie in western Caribbean Sea about 700 k...
Floating Phumdis of Loktak Lake, India
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2013
Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in northeast India, also called the only Floating lake in the world due to the large amount of fl...
The Citadel Town of Erbil, Iraq
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2013
At the heart of the city of Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, lies an ancient mound of earth some 25 to 30 meters tall from the surrou...
Ducks Rule at Peabody Hotel, Memphis
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2013
Peabody Hotel is not just another luxury hotel in downtown Memphis in Tennessee, USA. This one has a peculiar attraction – ducks. Every day ...
Scale Model of the Mississippi River on Mud Island
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2013
Mud Island is not actually an island, it is a small peninsula, in downtown Memphis on the Mississippi River. But it did rose out of mud. Wha...
Extraordinary Camouflage of Walking Leaves
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2013
Leaf insects or walking leaves are some of the most remarkable leaf mimics in the entire animal kingdom. These insects take the appearance o...
The Beautiful Fukang Meteorite
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2013
The Fukang meteorite, believed to be some 4.5 billion years old, which is as ancient as Earth itself, was unearthed near a town of the same ...
Colorful Danxia Landforms of China
Kaushik Patowary
May 20, 2013
The Danxia landform is a unique type of “petrographic geomorphology” found in China, characterized by strips of red sedimentary rock in stee...
Fire Rainbows: A Rare Cloud Phenomenon
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2013
“Fire Rainbows” or "rainbow clouds" are neither fire, nor rainbows, but are so called because of their brilliant pastel colors and...
Dietmar Eckell’s Photos of Plane Wrecks With “Happy Ends”
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2013
Airplane wrecks usually denote tragedies, but photographer Dietmar Eckell aims to highlight the rare miracles from the history of aviation ...
Photographer Tracks Down Abandoned Sets From Star Wars in Tunisia
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2013
New York-based Italian photographer Rä di Martino first discovered the ruins of the sets of Star Wars and The English Patient near Chott ...
Art and Decor of Moscow Metro Stations
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2013
The Metro began operating in Moscow in 1935 with a single 11 km line connecting just thirteen stations, but it has since grown into the worl...
Waitomo Glowworm Caves, New Zealand
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2013
The Waitomo Glowworm Caves, located just outside the main Waitomo township on the North Island of New Zealand, is a famous attraction becaus...
Wadi Al-Salaam: The Largest Cemetery in The World
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2013
Wadi us-Salaam, which literally means the Valley of Peace, is an Islamic cemetery located in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq. The cemetery cove...
Impressive Artwork Made Out of Denim by Ian Berry
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2013
Ian Berry is a British born artist currently based in Sweden, who creates artwork solely from denim. Using old jeans, jackets, and other de...
Bunda Cliffs in Australia: Is this the Edge of the World?
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2013
Located on the Great Australian Bight in Southern Australia, is the vast, featureless Nullarbor Plain - the world’s largest single piece of ...
Tabletop Mountains or Tepuis of Venezuela
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2013
Tepuis are flat table-top mountains found in the Guayana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela. In the language of the Pemon p...
Ferrari World Theme Park in Abu Dhabi
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2013
Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi is the world’s largest and the only Ferrari branded indoor theme park that sits at the center of a 2,500 hectare ...
Karst Mountains And Paddy Fields of Tam Coc, Vietnam
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2013
Tam Coc is located about 90 km from the city of Ninh Binh, and is considered one of Vietnam's most spectacular sights. Tam Coc means “th...
Katrin Korfmann’s Aerial Photos of People
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2013
German-born and Amsterdam-based artist Katrin Korfmann loves taking photos of human life, from a height. But unlike many aerial photographe...
50 Years of NASA’s Space Food
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2013
NASA’s Advanced Food Technology Project is responsible for providing space flight crews with a food system that is safe, nutritious, and ac...
The Majestic Tufa Towers of Mono Lake, California
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2013
Mono Lake is a shallow salt water lake located in the high desert on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in California in the ...
The Katskhi Pillar, Georgia
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2013
The Katskhi pillar is an imposing limestone monolith, 40 meters tall, located in the village of Katskhi in western Georgian region of Imeret...
The Green Belt Along The World’s Longest Desert Highway
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2013
The Tarim Desert Highway across the Taklamakan desert, in China, links the cities of Luntai and Minfeng on the northern and southern edges o...
Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Serthar, Tibet
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2013
Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, also known as Serthar Buddhist Institute, sits in the Larung Valley at an elevation of 4,000 meters, about 15 k...
Crude Oil Spas of Naftalan, Azerbaijan
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2013
In the Azerbaijan city of Naftalan, 320 kilometers north-west of the capital Baku, crude oil is found in such abundance that people literall...
Dark Surreal Paintings by Lisa Adams
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2013
Queensland based Lisa Adams is a self-taught, realist artist who lives remotely on a bush property in the hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshi...
The Living Residents of Manila’s North Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2013
Housing is such scarce in the Filipino capital of Manila, that thousands of residents have found an alternative to their housing woes by mak...
Street Art by Julien Malland a.k.a Seth Globepainter
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2013
French street artist Julien Malland, better known as Seth Globepainter , travels around the world, creating large scale murals using the wal...
Fujian Tulou: Ancient Earthen Castles of China
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2013
Fujian Tulou is a collection of earthen houses, impenetrable by outsiders, built between the 12th and the 20th centuries, located in the mou...
The Leaning Buildings of Santos, Brazil
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2013
The coastline along the city of Santos, some 80 km from Sao Paulo, in Brazil, offers a strange sight. Like dominoes about to topple, the wat...
The Amazing Water Fountain at Osaka Station
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2013
Nothing can describe how mesmerizing the water fountain at the Osaka City Station in Japan is. The attraction, located in the South Gate Bui...
