Ventisquero Colgante: The Hanging Glacier of Queulat
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2014
Ventisquero Colgante, or the Hanging Glacier, is located in the Queulat National Park, in Chile, and is the park’s biggest attraction. Hangi...
Bourke's Luck Potholes
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2014
Bourke's Luck Potholes are a natural water feature found within the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, about 35km north of Graskop on ...
Sewell, An Abandoned Mining Town in The Andes
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2014
Located on the slopes of the Andes in the commune of Machalà in Chile, at an altitude of 2,000 metres, lies the abandoned mining town of Sew...
Taroko Gorge, The Marble Mountains of Taiwan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2014
Taroko Gorge, also known as “Marble Gorge” because of the abundant supply of marble in the area, is an impressive 19-km-long canyon, located...
Sail Rock, Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2014
Sail Rock, also known as Parus Rock, is a natural sandstone monolith located on the shore of the Black Sea, in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, about...
Castle Meur: The House Between The Rocks, Plougrescant
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2014
Castel Meur, also known as La Maison du Gouffre or “the house between the rocks”, is a charming cottage wedged between two huge jagged rock...
The Lava Trees of Hawaii
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2014
When hot lava from a volcanic eruption invades a forest, often the lava does not overthrow the larger trees, but flows around them. The mois...
GuaÃra Falls: A Natural Wonder Flooded By An Artificial Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2014
About 200 kilometers north of the spectacular Iguazu Falls, along the border between Brazil and Paraguay, was another natural wonder even mo...
London’s New Folding Bridge Opens and Closes Like a Fan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2014
British firm Knight Architects and structural engineers AKT have designed and completed a new moving footbridge in Paddington, London, that ...
Jordan Mang-osan Solar Pyrography Drawings
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2014
Magnifying glasses are fascinating, even more, if you are a kid. I remember holding them in the sun burning holes on newspapers or trying to...
Christopher McCandless' Abandoned "Magic Bus"
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2014
Those who have read Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild or watched the 2007 Sean Penn’s movie by the same name, should be able to recolle...
Photographer Captures Sprite Lightning Over Italy
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
Up in the atmosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds or cumulonimbus, sometimes mysterious electrical discharges occur known as sprites. The...
Yom Kippur, The Day When Israel Goes Car Free
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
For twenty-four hours each year, all cars goes off the road all over Israel in celebration of Yom Kippur, also known as Day of Atonement - t...
The Chandelier at Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
A magnificent chandelier hangs under the dome of the main entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the world's largest muse...
The Sand Covered Church of Skagen
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2014
About 2 km southwest of the town center of Skagen, in Denmark, is a brick church half buried in sand. Known as Old Skagen Church or The Buri...
The Crooked House of Windsor
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
While many crooked houses are deliberately built crooked for visitor attraction, the one that stands at market square in Windsor, in England...
Historian Discovers 800 Year Old Doodles in Old Books
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
Some human behavior never change, such as the urge to doodle in the margin of a book. Historian Erik Kwakkel discovered this simple truth wh...
The Surreal World of Google Earth by Clement Valla
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
Brooklyn-based artist Clement Valla scours Google Earth looking for anomalies. They aren’t visible right away, but when the viewpoint is in ...
Terrifying Glass-Bottomed Bridge Opens in China
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
China’s latest attraction is a glass-bottomed suspension bridge that straddles two rocky peaks, 300 meters apart, in Pingjiang county, in th...
35,000 Walruses Come Ashore in Alaska Due to Lack of Sea Ice
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
The brown patch, on the photo below, is a congregation of an estimated 35,000 walruses that came ashore on a beach near Point Lay, an Inupia...
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2014
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the largest building in the world dedicated to the containment and preservati...
Plimoth Plantation: A Living Museum of a 17th Century English Colony in America
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2014
In the early 17th century a group of separatists, who came to be known as the Pilgrim Fathers, fled the volatile political environment in En...
The Pier of Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2014
Old Orchard Beach is a seven-mile stretch of beach located on the inner side of Saco Bay on the Atlantic Ocean, in Maine, the US. It is a po...
Serbia’s Dry Bridge: A Bridge Without a River
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2014
The Bega River runs for about 250 km from the Poiana Rusca Mountains in Romania and into Serbia where it flows into the Tisa river near Tite...
Devil's Kettle: A Mysterious Waterfalls
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2014
The Devil's Kettle is a puzzling geological phenomenon located inside Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota, in USA, just off the N...
Miniature Dioramas by Satoshi Araki
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2014
Tokyo based artist Satoshi Araki creates miniature dioramas of chaotic cityscapes that are the result of urban decay or warfare, with amazi...
The Disappearing Glaciers of Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2014
Africa is typically isn’t the place that inspires visions of ice and glaciers, yet surprisingly, there are a number of glaciers in Africa, a...
Darra Adam Khel: The Village of Illegal Gun Manufacturers
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2014
Darra Adam Khel is a small village in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, located between the city of Peshawar and Kohat. An unkemp...
The Old Man of The Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2014
In 1886, when geologist Joseph S. Diller was making the first geological study of Oregon’s Crater Lake, in the US, he noticed a tree stump c...
Lark Quarry Dinosaur Stampede
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2014
About 95 million years ago, a herd of two-legged dinosaurs, some as small as chickens and some about the size of emus came to drink at the m...
The Last Turf Church of Hof, Iceland
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2014
Hof, in Öræfi, is a small village in southeast Iceland, approximately 30 kilometers east of Vatnajökull, and 20 kilometers south of the Skaf...
Amelia Earhart’s Lighthouse on Howland Island
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2014
Howland Island is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about 3,100 km southwest of Ho...
The Kopjes of Serengeti
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2014
Serengeti is a vast plain of grassland, woods and swamps, nearly 30,000 square kilometers, that stretches from north-western Tanzania into s...
The Glittering Mausoleum of Shah-e-Cheragh
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2014
Shah-e-Cheragh is a funerary monument and mosque located in the city of Shiraz, in Iran, where lies the tomb of Amir Ahmad and his brother M...
Klaksvik, Faroe Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2014
Nestled at the foot of two lofty mountain ridges, connected by a low-lying area where two inlets meet, Klaksvik is the second-largest city i...
Karlu Karlu - The Devil's Marbles
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2014
Devil’s Marbles or Karlu Karlu, as they are known by the local Warumungu Aboriginals, are a collection of massive granite boulders strewn ac...
Soak in Wine, Green Tea, Coffee or Sake at Yunessun Spa Resort
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2014
Bathing in water is such old school. At Yunessun Spa Resort in Hakone, Japan, you can soak yourself in a variety of unorthodox liquids such ...
Lake Amadeus, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
Lake Amadeus is a huge salt lake located the southwest corner of Australia's Northern Territory, about 50 km north of Uluru or Ayers Roc...
World’s Longest Pedestrian Suspension Bridge in Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
The world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge opened this summer in Sochi National Park, Russia. Located on the extreme corner of the Nat...
365 Postcards for Ants by Lorraine Loots
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
Everyday, Cape Town-based artist Lorraine Loots creates a miniature painting for her ongoing project “365 Postcards for Ants.” Using paint ...
St Michael's Mount of Cornwall
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
St. Michael's Mount is a tidal island located about 360 meters off the coast of Mount's Bay coast of Cornwall, England. Perched on t...
Chinese City Opens Sidewalk For Mobile Phone Users
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2014
Walking the streets in any major city today is a peril for pedestrians, not from cars, but from fellow pedestrians who are too engrossed on ...
The Sand Dunes of Maspalomas
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2014
The Dunes of Maspalomas is a spectacular 4 square km field of sand located in the tourist town of Maspalomas in the south of the island of G...
The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania is a tomb located on the road between the cities of Cherchell and Algiers, in Algeria. It is the final res...
The Fence of Carnegie Mellon University: The Most Painted Object in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University has a low concrete fence in the middle of its campus. For the last 70 years, students have been ...
Bloemencorso Zundert Flower Parade 2014
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Zundert, a small town in the Netherlands located at the Belgian border, hosts the world’s biggest flower parade, featuring twenty floats of ...
Kiss The Blarney Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Near the village of Blarney, in Ireland, about 8 km north-west of the small city of Cork, lies the Blarney Castle. At the top of the castle ...
The Strange Beauty of Abandoned Duck Blinds by Dave Jordano
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2014
Along the banks of the Mississippi River on the solid ice, duck hunters set up blinds, a cover device designed to conceal, and at the same t...
The Lighthouse of Strombolicchio
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2014
Strombolicchio (or tiny Stromboli) is a sea stack of volcanic origin located about 2 km to the northeast of the island of Stromboli in the T...
Goree Island: Senegal’s Slave Trade Center
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2014
Gorée is a small island located off the coast of Dakar, in Senegal, about 2 km out into the sea. It was the site of one of the earliest Euro...
