The Impossible Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2013
At the turn of the 20th century, during the great era of railways, each city on the western seaboard of the North American continent needed ...
The Rock Islands of Palau
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2013
Palau is an archipelago of about 250 islands, located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is its own country – the Republic of Palau, although ...
Soviet War Memorial at Mamayev Kurgan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2013
The southern Russian city of Stalingrad, later renamed Volgograd, witnessed one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. The heav...
The World's Steepest Cogwheel Railway at Mount Pilatus
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2013
The Pilatus railway in Switzerland connects Alpnachstad on Lake Lucerne, to a terminus near the summit of Mount Pilatus at an altitude of 2,...
Opal – The Most Spectacular Gemstone
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2013
Opal is one of the most beautiful of gemstones. These stones can flash every color of the spectrum with a brilliance that can even surpass t...
The Twelve Apostles, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2013
The Twelve Apostles is a collection of dramatic limestone stacks that rises up to 45 meters, 7 km off the shore of the Port Campbell Nationa...
Brusio Spiral Viaduct in Switzerland
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2013
The Brusio spiral viaduct is a single track nine-arched stone spiral railway viaduct located in Brusio, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzer...
Pygmy Marmoset - The Smallest Monkey
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 22, 2013
The pygmy marmoset is a tiny primate that is native to rainforests of the western Amazon Basin in South America. At just 100 grams, the pygm...
The Octopus Tree of Oregon
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 22, 2013
The Octopus Tree is a massive Sitka spruce located a few hundred feet from Cape Meares Lighthouse on the Oregon Coast, in the U.S. The tree ...
Gergeti Trinity Church in Georgia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2013
Near the village of Gergeti, outside the town of Stephantsminda, in Georgia, lies the isolated Gergeti Trinity Church. Also called the Holy ...
Cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2013
Cenotes are natural pits or sinkholes resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath. They are especia...
The Dark Secret of The World’s Tallest Skyscrapers
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2013
The title for the world's tallest skyscraper is basically a pissing contest between international developers, and as the Skyscraper Inde...
Cal Orcko: A 300 Feet Wall With Over 5,000 Dinosaur Footprints
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2013
On the outskirts of the city of Sucre, in Bolivia, is a large cement plant, and when the quarry it uses was being expanded, workers discover...
7 Famous Statues Inspired by Fairy Tales
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 16, 2013
Fairy tales have been used as bed time stories by parents for generations. They have entertained kids, inspired writers, and found prominenc...
Mehrangarh Fort of Jodhpur, India
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2013
Mehrangarh Fort, located in Jodhpur in the state of Rajasthan, is a massive fort located on a hill 400 feet above the city. Its walls are up...
Preparing for the Apocalypse: Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2013
Endangered species such humpback whales and rhinoceros often grab the headlines, but plant life is under threat too. Fruits and vegetables t...
Photos of Neatly Arranged Objects by Jim Golden
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2013
Portland-based photographer Jim Golden , who has been shooting photos for brands like Nike, ESPN, and Yahoo for over 15 years, and excels in...
This is Glass Gem Corn and it is Real
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2013
These multicolored kernels of corn that look like glass beads belong to a specially bred variety, aptly named Glass Gem Corn, and they can b...
Street Art by Natalia Rak
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2013
Natalia Rak is one of the most exciting painters and street artists to emerge in Poland’s contemporary art scene. Born in 1986, Natalia rec...
The Shadow of Mount Rainier
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2013
All objects, big or small, cast shadows and so do mountains. However, one particular peak displays a peculiar behavior – it cast shadows not...
The “Floating” Lake Palace of Udaipur
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2013
Like a shimmering mirage in the middle of Lake Pichola, Lake Palace is easily one of India’s most famous hotels. The palace was built betwee...
Submarine Emerges From Beneath a Street in Milan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2013
In a publicity stunt last week, an Italian insurance company installed a massive submarine that appeared to have emerged from underneath an ...
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2013
No, the cat didn’t jump on my keyboard. It’s an actual name for a lake that is located in the town of Webster in Massachusetts, United State...
Ještěd Tower Hotel in Czech Republic
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2013
Ještěd Tower is a 94 meter-tall television transmitter and hotel integrated into one, built on the top of Ještěd mountain near Liberec in th...
Dubai's Enormous “The World” Artificial Archipelago
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2013
The World Islands is an artificial archipelago consisting of about 300 small islands constructed in the rough shape of a world map, located ...
7 Ambitious Hydroelectric Power Projects
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2013
Hydropower has been used since ancient times to grind flour, pump water and irrigate fields and perform other tasks. With the discovery of e...
Blooming of the Tisza
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2013
Every year from late spring to early summer, an incredible natural spectacle transforms Hungary's Tisza River. Millions of long-tailed m...
9,000 Soldiers Stenciled On Normandy Beach To Commemorate D-Day Landings
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2013
British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by hundreds of volunteers, on September 21, 2013, travelled to the beaches of Norman...
The Hair Raising Train Ride Over Goteik Viaduct
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2013
The Goteik viaduct, located in Nawnghkio, is one of Burma’s most stunning engineering marvel. Built by the colonial British in the beginning...
The Painted Ladies of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2013
The famous Painted Ladies of San Francisco are a row of colorful Victorian houses located at 710–720 Steiner Street, across from Alamo Squar...
The Cursed Island of Gaiola
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2013
Gaiola Island ( Isola della Gaiola in Italian) is one of the minor islands of Naples, Italy, located in the Gulf of Naples in the heart of ...
The Flaming Rocks of Chimaera, Turkey
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2013
About 80 km southwest of Antalya, near the town of Çıralı in southwestern Turkey, lies a rocky mountain that’s been literally on fire for th...
The Maasai Cricket Warriors
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2013
Dressed in flowing red skirts and draped in colorful bead necklaces but otherwise bare bodied, the warriors from the legendary Kenyan tribe ...
Disastrous Sinkholes From Around the World
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2013
In the last few years, news of unexpected sinkholes swallowing cars, houses and people have made headlines with disturbingly high frequency....
The Laxey Wheel: World's Largest Working Waterwheel
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2013
The Laxey Wheel is a large waterwheel located in the village of Laxey in the Isle of Man, a tiny island in the Irish Sea between the islands...
Yida Refugee Camp in South Sudan
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2013
In a vast wetland, about 18 miles south of the contested border between Sudan and South Sudan, lies a sprawling refugee camp of those fleein...
Michael Light’s Aerial Photographs of Economic Collapse
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2013
Michael Light is a San Francisco-based photographer and pilot, focused on the environment and how contemporary American culture relates to ...
International Camping Festival in China
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2013
Over 15,000 outdoor sports enthusiasts from all over China assembled at a hillside near Mount Wugongshan in China's Jiangxi province to ...
Ron Arad: Crushing Cars for Art
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2013
As a child, you may remember collecting flowers and sticking them between two pages of a thick book. A few days later they would be fragile ...
Lady Of The Lake: The Ghostly Remains of a B-29 Superfortress
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2013
The “Lady of the Lake” is what remains of a B-29 weather reconnaissance aircraft that rests in the middle of an Alaskan lake near Eielson Ai...
The Windswept Trees at Slope Point, New Zealand
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2013
Slope Point is the most southern point of New Zealand’s South Island. The region is consistently lashed with fierce and cold southwesterly w...
The Flak Towers of the Luftwaffe
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2013
After the Royal Air Force bombed Berlin on October 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of several flak towers to protect his cities ...
Gateshead Millennium Bridge: World’s Only Tilting Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2013
The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge spanning River Tyne in England between Gateshead's Quays arts quarter...
The Cave of Hands in Patagonia, Argentina
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2013
Prehistoric rock paintings, handprints and stencils span all continents, and began appearing on rock walls around the world at least 30,000 ...
Submersible Bridges of Corinth Canal, Greece
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2013
The Corinth Canal in Greece cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, co...
Realistic Colored Pencil Drawings by Marcello Barenghi
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2013
Italian artist Marcello Barenghi draws incredibly realistically with the help of colored pencils and occasionally markers or watercolor. Hi...
German Political Parties Create Miniature Utopias to Showoff Their Vision for Their Country
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2013
Before the 2009 election kicked off in Germany, Hamburg’s miniature railway museum - Miniatur Wonderland - gave the country's main polit...
Walkie Talkie Building in London Creates ‘Death Ray’ with Reflected Sunlight
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2013
A new London skyscraper dubbed the "Walkie-Talkie" due to its distinctive shape, has been blamed for reflecting light and heat fro...
The Annual Chincoteague Pony Swim
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2013
Every year, some 150 wild Chincoteague ponies are rounded up on Assateague Island, a long barrier island located off the eastern coast of De...
The Cave Church of the Zabbaleen in Cairo
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2013
The Monastery of Saint Simon, also known as the Cave Church, is located in the Mokattam mountain in southeastern Cairo, Egypt, in an area th...
