The Kelpies: Giant Horse Sculptures in Falkrik
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2014
The Kelpies are two towering horse-head sculptures, standing next to the Forth and Clyde Canal, in Helix park, in Falkrik, in Scotland. The ...
Kintsugi, The Japanese Art of Fixing Broken Pottery With Gold
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2014
Most people would like damages to their broken items to be concealed and hidden by repair making the object look like new. But the Japanese ...
Salina Turda: An Underground Theme Park in a Salt Mine
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2014
Salina Turda is an old salt mine located deep underground in the town of Turda in Romania. Salt was first extracted here during the antiquit...
Yareta, The 3,000 Years Old Plant
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2014
These rocks on the highlands of the Andes looks like they are covered with moss. Actually, they are a type of flowing plant known as Yareta ...
The Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2014
The Minaret of Jam is located in Afghanistan’s Shahrak district on the banks of Hari river at a place where it meets river Jam around 215 km...
Vertigo Inducing Selfies by Russian Photographer
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2014
Nineteen year old Russian daredevil Alexander Remnev and his group of thrill-seekers like to hang out from the top of tall buildings, quite...
The Great Serpent Mound of Southwest Ohio
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2014
The Great Serpent Mound is a prehistoric effigy earthwork of a serpent uncoiling located on a wedge-shaped, slightly convex ridge in the rol...
Horse Drawn Trams of Victor Harbor
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2014
The town of Victor Harbor is located on the coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula, about 80 km south of Adelaide, in South Australia. Victor Harbo...
Parade of Skeletons at the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy
Kaushik Patowary
May 20, 2014
The Gallery of Comparative Anatomy and Paleontology, one of the many components of the National Museum of Natural History, holds one of the ...
Intricate Mud Paintings on School Walls in India
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2014
Each year, in the remote village of Sujata in one of India’s poorest states Bihar, the Niranjana Public Welfare School organizes the Wall A...
Bun Bang Fai Rocket Festival in Yasothon, Thailand
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2014
Bun Bang Fai, or the rocket festival, is a merit-making ceremony traditionally practiced by ethnic Lao people throughout much of northeast T...
Fordite: A Jewel Made From Layers of Old Car Paint
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2014
Fordite, also known as Detroit agate, comes in bright colors and psychedelic swirls, and are often crafted into eye-catching jewelry. But fo...
Shanghai Marriage Market
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2014
Every Saturday and Sunday, between noon and five in the afternoon, regardless of the weather, the People's Park in Shanghai in China is ...
Amazing Body Painting by Trina Merry
Kaushik Patowary
May 13, 2014
Trina Merry is a fine art bodypainter based in the San Francisco, who uses living human beings instead of canvas. The following series of p...
Gigantic Chest of Drawers at High Point, North Carolina
Kaushik Patowary
May 13, 2014
The city of High Point in North Carolina, in the United States, is home to two gigantic chest of drawers. The two colossal monuments were pu...
Devilish Teeth of the Crabeater Seals
Kaushik Patowary
May 13, 2014
Crabeater seals ( Lobodon carcinophaga ) are the most abundant species of seals and are widely distributed along the pack ice that surrounds...
Human Tears Under The Microscope
Kaushik Patowary
May 13, 2014
Los Angeles-based photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher’s “ The Topography of Tears ” is a microscopic study of tears emitted during a range of emot...
Thames Flood Barrier
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2014
The Thames Barrier is located downstream of central London, on the river Thames on the eastern side of the capital at Woolwich. It is the wo...
An International Zip Line Between Spain And Portugal
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2014
At first glance, you will hardly notice that there is a steel cable connecting Sanlucar de Guadiana, in Andalucia, Spain, to Alcoutim, in Al...
Skradinski buk in Croatia
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2014
Skradinski buk is the longest and the most popular waterfall on the Krka River and is one of Croatia’s best known natural wonders. It is a m...
Mar Chiquita, a Secluded Beach in Puerto Rico
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2014
Mar Chiquita, or Little Sea, is a small beach in a protected cove near the eastern end of a long rocky wall exposed on the coast of Manatà i...
Gregory Kloehn Turns Dumpsters Into Tiny Homes
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2014
California-based artist Gregory Kloehn is using his creativity and construction skills to build tiny homes for the city’s homeless out of re...
Human Impact on Poland's Environment As Seen From Air
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2014
Famed aerial photographer Kacper Kowalski , featured previously on our website , has taken to the skies again, this time to document the com...
Piles of Beluga Whale Bones at Abandoned Whaling Station in Svalbard
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2014
The island of Spitsbergen, the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, was the site for extensi...
Mehdi Ghadyanloo’s Playful Street Art in Tehran
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2014
Iranian artist and designer Mehdi Ghadyanloo , with the help of the municipality, is slowly brightening up the city of Tehran one wall at a ...
Raja Ampat Islands
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2014
Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals in the northwest tip of Bird's He...
The Plain of Jars
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2014
In the mountains of northern Laos in Xieng Khouang province, are scattered thousands of giant stone jars each weighing several tons. The jar...
Oscar Wilde's Lipstick-Covered Tomb in Paris
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2014
The memorial of the famous 19th century Irish writer and poet, Oscar Wilde, lies in a cemetery in Paris. Chiseled out of a 20-tonne block of...
The Bloodwood Tree
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2014
Pterocarpus angolensis is a kind of teak native to southern Africa, known by various names such as Kiaat, Mukwa, and Muninga. It is also ca...
Mangalitsa, The Pig That Resembles a Sheep
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2014
Mangalitsa or Mangalica is a rare breed of pig of Hungarian origin that has an unusual growth of curly hair over its body, akin to that of a...
Towing Icebergs Away From Oil Platforms
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2014
Every year 20,000 to 40,000 icebergs are born out of glaciers in Greenland and carried away by the currents and into the North Atlantic wher...
Myanmar’s Manual Oil Drills
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2014
Myanmar is rich in natural resources, but much of this remains untapped. Political sanctions imposed by the military regime that ruled the c...
The Deer Stones of Mongolia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2014
Throughout the grasslands of northern Mongolia and southern Siberia lay scattered hundreds of megaliths bearing mysterious carvings that see...
Spruce Creek: Where Everybody Owns an Airplane
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2014
Spruce Creek, in Northeast Florida, a few miles south of Daytona Beach, is one of the most unique residential communities in the world. Know...
Cedar Avenue of Nikko, The World’s Longest Tree-Lined Avenue
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2014
The Cedar Avenue of Nikko, in the city of Nikko in Japan, stretches for 37 km and lined on either side by some 13,000 cedar trees, known as ...
City Crows Build Nests Out of Coat Hangers
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2014
When Aesop wrote the famous fable “The Crow and the Pitcher”, he wasn’t making up a story. The fable was based on actual observation that wa...
Meskel Square, A Chaotic Intersection With No Traffic Lights
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2014
Chaotic doesn’t even begin to describe how crazy the Meskel Square intersection is, in the city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Without a single...
Wadi Al-Hitan, the Valley of Whales in Egypt
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2014
The deserts of Egypt contains some of the best preserved paleontological sites in the world one of which is Wadi al-Hitan or the Valley of W...
Quinta Real - Hotel in a Former Bullring in Zacatecas, Mexico
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2014
The Plaza de Toros San Pedro bullring was inaugurated in 1866, adjacent to the historic El Cubo aqueduct, in the town of Zacatecas in Mexico...
Guelta d’Archei, a Surprising Oasis in Chad
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2014
Guelta d'Archei is an oasis, or rather a guelta, in the heart of the Sahara desert. A guelta is a peculiar type of wetland, typical of d...
Presidio Modelo, The Abandoned Panopticon Prison of Cuba
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2014
Presidio Modelo was a former “model prison" of Panopticon design, located on the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba, built between 1926 and 19...
The Rock Churches of Lalibela
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2014
In the remote town of Lalibela, perched on the mountains in the heart of Ethiopia, some 645 km from Addis Ababa, are eleven medieval monolit...
Long Distance Conveyor Belts
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2014
Employed in nearly all kinds of industries, conveyor belts provide an excellent mean for moving cargo and materials from one place to anothe...
Spectacular Train Route to Copper Mines in the Andes
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 21, 2014
The Chanaral – Llanta – Potrerillos line in Chile is one of the most stunning railways in the world. It connects Potrerillos, a now abandone...
Ed Burtynsky’s Aerial Pictures of Watery Landscape
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2014
Edward Burtynsky is Canada’s most respected photographers known for his remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes ...
Organic Farming in the Deserts of Wadi Rum
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2014
The valley of Wadi Rum in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia, has a landscape so alien it is nicknamed "Valley of the M...
The Netherland’s Impressive Storm Surge Barriers
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2014
The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying country, with about 20% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level. As much...
New Zealand’s Hot Water Beach
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2014
Hot Water Beach is a popular beach and geothermal attraction located on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand, approxima...
The Pseudocraters of Iceland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2014
A pseudocrater looks like a true volcanic crater, but is not. These distinctive landforms are created when flowing hot lava crosses over a w...
Makoko, a Floating Slum in Nigeria
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2014
The shanty town of Makoko is located on a lagoon on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, a stone’s throw from the modern buildings that make up L...
