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...
