Enormous Statue of Genghis Khan in Mongolia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2013
To the outside world, Genghis Khan, the fearsome Mongolian warrior who conquered half the known world in the 13th century, is remembered for...
Boardman Tree Farm in Oregon, USA
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2013
The Boardman Tree Farm is located in Morrow, county Oregon, along Interstate 84, 5 miles west of the I-82 junction. Owned by the GreenWood T...
Rapa River Delta, Sweden
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2013
The Rapa River (also called Rapaätno) flows through the Sarek National Park, winding through magnificent mountain ranges and narrow valleys,...
Bloemencorso Zundert Flower Parade 2013
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2013
Bloemencorso Zundert is the biggest event of the year for the small town of Zundert, the Netherlands, and incidentally, the largest flower ...
Artist Collaborates With 4-Year-Old To Create Surrealist Portraits
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2013
When illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks pulled out a new sketchbook she had specially ordered, she was apprehensive. The reason of her worry ...
Mysterious Cocoon With a Picket Fence
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2013
Researchers to an expedition to the rainforest in the Southern Peruvian Amazon have spotted, what appears to be a mysterious new cocoon. The...
Hezbollah Resistance Museum in Mleeta, Lebanon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2013
The Hezbollah Resistance Museum or the Tourist Landmark of the Resistance , as it is officially known, is an open air war museum created by ...
The Aftermath of a Music Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2013
The morning after the night the Reading Festival concluded, and the festival goers disseminated, photographer David White took off in a heli...
Exocoetidae: The Fish That Flies
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2013
Exocoetidae, commonly called Flying Fish, is a family of fishes aptly named for their ability to emerge out of the water and glide for long ...
Waw an Namus: An Oasis in a Volcanic Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2013
Waw an Namus is an extinct volcanic crater located in one of the remotest destinations in Libya, deep in the Sahara desert almost at its geo...
Travelling Sand Dunes of Fraser Island
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2013
Fraser Island is located along the southern coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Brisbane. Stretch...
The Solar Power Towers of Seville, Spain
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2013
In a patchwork of agricultural fields outside Seville, Spain, two giant 40-storey-high concrete towers rise. The obelisk-like structures are...
The Greenhouses of Almeria
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2013
Since the 1980s, the small coastal plain, some 30 kilometers southwest of the city of Almeria, has developed the largest concentration of gr...
World’s Shortest Commercial Flight is Just 47 Seconds Long
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2013
The world’s shortest commercial flight takes place between the two Orkney Islands, Westray and Papa Westray, just north of Scotland, separat...
People Too’s Brilliant Paper Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2013
People Too is the name of a Russian paper-craft agency run by two talented artist Lena Erlikh and Aleksey Lyapunov. Hailing from Novosibirs...
Surreal Floating Room Sculptures by Leandro Erlich
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2013
Like a scene from a fantasy movie, a dilapidated room that appears to have been literally ripped out of a building remains suspended in mid ...
Hyper Realistic Paintings by Simon Hennessey
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2013
Simon Hennessey is a Birmingham, UK based artist who paints realistic images of famous landmarks around the world as reflected in the lense...
Propaganda Pictures Depicting Women’s Role in World War II
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2013
During World War II, the American government made a conscious effort to include women in the war effort using a vast array of media to urge...
Nanpu Bridge in China
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2013
The Nanpu Bridge across Huangpu river is one of the main bridges in Shanghai, China, and the first cable stayed bridge with a span of over 4...
Charles Jencks’s Peculiar Landscaping Art
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2013
Charles Jencks is an American architect and landscape artist, well-known as the critic who first defined post-modernism in architecture, an...
Food Art By Carl Warner
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2013
London-based photographer Carl Warner uses bits and pieces of food to create incredibly realistic and intricate scenes. Heaps of bread beco...
Historic Black and White Photos Restored in Color
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2013
There is a long standing debate of whether black and white photos of the historic era should be colorized. Last year there was a media uproa...
Singapore’s Vertical Farms
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2013
Land is a luxury that Singaporeans cannot afford. An island country of only 710 square km is already home to 5 million people. No wonder, Si...
Desert Lotus Hotel In Inner Mongolia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2013
A magnificent new hotel has bloomed amid the vast sea of sands in Xiangshawan Desert, Inner Mongolia, 800 kilometers west to Beijing. Named ...
Victorian Era Sea Fort Turned Into Luxury Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2013
During the late 1800s, Lord Palmerston, the British Prime Minister of that time, commissioned the construction of several sea forts in the S...
Street Art by DALeast
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2013
DALeast is a Chinese born artist that lives and works in Capetown, South Africa. The 29-year-old, who keeps his real name a secret, has bee...
Half Dome, The Granite Peak at Yosemite National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2013
One of Yosemite National Park's most familiar sights is Half Dome, a granite dome rising nearly 5,000 feet above the valley floor. In 18...
Isle of Sark: Europe's Last Feudal State
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2013
Sark is a small island within the Bailiwick of Guernsey in southwestern English Channel, 25 miles off the French coast of Normandy. The isle...
Al Wahbah Crater: A Pearly White Crater in Saudi Arabia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2013
The Al Wahaba crater (also spelled Al Waba) is located in the Saudi Arabian desert, 254 km from Taif on the western edge of the Hafer Kishb ...
The Grand Staircase of Santa Maria del Monte
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2013
The Staircase of Santa Maria del Monte is a 142-step monumental staircase from 1608 in the old part of the town of Caltagirone, located on t...
Chinese Professor Builds Mountain Villa on Top of Apartment
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2013
A university professor in Beijing, Zhang Lin, has built a mountain villa on the roof of a 26-story apartment block that has gained the title...
Portraits Made from Spilled Liquids by Vivi Mac
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2013
French artist Vivi Mac uses a variety of food, drinks and ingredients to “speed paint” images of famous historical figures, celebrities, an...
7 Strange Museums in Amsterdam
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2013
Amsterdam is a city of museums – there are more than 400 museums and art galleries within the city. It is said that no other city in the wor...
Strange Airport #5: Gisborne Airport - Runway With a Railway Crossing
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2013
Gisborne Airport is a small regional airport that is located on the western outskirts of Gisborne, the East Coast of the North Island of New...
Skara Brae Prehistoric Village in Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2013
Skara Brae, on the Bay of Skaill, in the Orkney Isles to the north-east of mainland Scotland, was a late Neolithic settlement consisting of ...
Seven Mile Bridge in Florida
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2013
The Seven Mile Bridge is an iconic bridge in the Florida Keys of United States, stretching out into the open sea, connecting Knight's Ke...
Unbelievable Anamorphic 3D Drawings by Wladimir Inostroza
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2013
Wladimir Inostroza, who goes by the name Fredo, is a young Chilean artist who draws mind-blowing three-dimensional pencil drawings that appe...
Fenghuang - The City Frozen in Time
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2013
The ancient town of Fenghuang is located in the southwest corner of the west of Hunan province, in China, at the foot of a mountain along th...
6 More Interesting Events of August
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2013
A year ago, we scoured every nook and corner of the earth and rounded up some of the strangest festivals celebrated every year in the month ...
The Three Peaks of Lavaredo
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2013
The three peaks of Lavaredo, or the “Tre Cime di Lavaredo” in Italian, are three distinctive battlement-like peaks, in the Sexten Dolomites ...
10 Spectacular Wooden Churches of Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2013
Wood is a distinctive part of Russia's architectural heritage, especially in traditional villages in the North of Russia. For over a tho...
Soca River – The Emerald Beauty
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2013
The Soča is a 136 km long river that flows through western Slovenia and northeastern Italy in one of the most beautiful and unspoiled valley...
Magical Miniature Worlds by Matthew Albanese
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2013
Matthew Albanese creates small-scale meticulously detailed models of outdoor scenes and landscapes using everyday, simple, mundane material...
Hyper Realistic Pastel Portraits by Ruben Belloso Adorna
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2013
Ruben Belloso Adorna is a talented young artist from Seville, Spain, who, at the age of 27, has already made a name for himself in the art ...
Italy's Earthquake Ravaged Ghost Towns
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2013
You'll have heard, no doubt, of Pompeii, the Roman town perfectly preserved in a moment when nearby volcano, Mount Vesuvius, erupted. T...
4 of the World's Most Amazing Treetop Hotels
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2013
Once upon a time, building a hotel meant bulldozing the planet's precious trees. However, many of the world's accommodation provider...
The Incredible Barringer Meteor Crater of Arizona
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2013
About 50,000 years ago, a rock fragment broke away from the asteroid belt and hurtled towards earth. The rock, composed of nickel and iron, ...
U Bein’s Iconic, Kilometer Long Wooden Bridge in Myanmar
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2013
U Bein’s bridge is a teak structure that stretches almost 1,200 meters across the Taungthaman Lake, near the ancient Burmese capital of Amar...
Pico Cão Grande: The Towering Volcanic Plug
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2013
The Pico Cão Grande or the Great Dog Peak is a towering needle-shaped volcanic plug peak in São Tomé and Príncipe, in the south of São Tomé...
