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 ...
