The Restaurant Atop Bei Tou Incinerator
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2014
The Bei Tou Incinerator (also spelled as Pei Tou), located in the city of Taipei in Taiwan, is a waste incinerator that burns 1,800 metric t...
The Oldest Cave Paintings in The Cave of El Castillo
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2014
The world’s oldest artwork, believed to be at least 40,800 years old, was discovered in the Cave of El Castillo, literally, “the cave of cas...
The Sunken Cemetery of Camiguin Island
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2014
Camiguin is an island province of the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about 10 kilometers off the northern coast of Mindanao. The isla...
The Principality of Sealand, or How to Start Your Own Country
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2014
The Principality of Sealand is a micronation located on an abandoned World War II fort, in the North Sea 10 km off the coast of Suffolk in E...
Tower of David, the World’s Tallest Slum
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2014
The Tower of David is an abandoned unfinished skyscraper in the center of Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, that is now home to more t...
12 Famous Shipwrecks That You Can Still Visit
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2014
There are an estimated three million undiscovered shipwrecks scattered on the oceans’ floor across the world, some of which are thousands of...
Hong Kong’s Outdoor Escalators
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2014
In one of Hong Kong's smartest residential area called Mid-levels, the public is served by an unusual form of transport - the longest ou...
Toxic Algae Bloom on Lake Erie
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2014
Lake Erie is the fourth largest of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh largest lake in the world, by surface area. Lake ...
Gypsum Lakes or Birridas of Shark Bay
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2014
The most westerly point of the Australian continent, next to the Indian Ocean is called Shark Bay, an area of exceptional natural features a...
Tree in the Rock, in Wyoming
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2014
Located right in the middle of Interstate 80, between Cheyenne and Laramie, in southeast Wyoming is a peculiar tree. The tree is a limber pi...
The Chocolate Hills of Bohol
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2014
Bohol is the main island of Bohol Province and the tenth largest island of the Philippine archipelago. Bohol is a tropical haven of natural ...
A Dangerous Ropeway in a Chinese Village
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2014
For the residents of a remote mountain village in Central China’s Hubei Province, the only connection with the outside world is a precarious...
The Melted Bricks of Fort Zverev, in Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2014
Fort Zverev, located on the shores of the Baltic Sea in northern Kronstadt, lies in complete ruins today. One of the several forts of Kronst...
The House on Towan Island, Newquay
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2014
Just a few meters off the British coast near Newquay in Cornwell, lies the tiny Towan island. Perched at the top of this 80 feet high rocky ...
Cold Water Geysers of Analavory
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2014
About 12 km north-east from the town of Analavory in Madagascar are located four unusual geysers. There is no volcanic activity underneath A...
Kaali Meteorite Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2014
The Kaali Meteorite Crater is located in the village of Kaali on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, 18km from its capital Kuressaare. It was t...
Palmerston Island, Where Everyone is Related
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 24, 2014
Palmerston Island is a coral atoll in the Cook Islands in one of the most isolated part of the Pacific Ocean, about 3,200 km from New Zealan...
Lake Chagan, The Atomic Lake Filled With Radioactive Water
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2014
During the hey days of Cold War, the Soviet started blowing up nukes all over northeastern Kazakhstan to investigate the possibility of usin...
The Star Sand Beach of Hoshizuna-no-hama
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2014
Hoshizuna no Hama is a small beach located on the northern tip of the remote Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture, in Japan. Hoshizuna no H...
Aqueduct Veluwemeer in Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2014
The Aqueduct Veluwemeer is a navigable aqueduct over the N302 road near Harderwijk, in eastern Netherlands. It is located under a small part...
