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...
