The Heaven’s Gate of Tianmen Shan, China
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2014
China’s Tianmen Shan or the Heaven's Gate Mountain in Hunan province is named after an incredible cave natural arch eroded through the k...
Fake Facades: Patrick Commecy’s Clever Street Art
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2014
French artist Patrick Commecy and his team of muralists transform dull and boring facades around France into vibrant scenes full of life. H...
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...
