Ebenezer Place, The Shortest Street in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2014
“Blink and you’d miss Ebenezer Place,” writes Anne Ward, author of Nothing to See Here: A Guide to the Hidden Joys of Scotland , a guide boo...
Moulins on Glaciers
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2014
Just like rainwater dissolves the bedrock on the Earth’s crust and form sinkholes, meltwater on a glacier’s surface can melt ice and form si...
The Snow Monkeys of Jigokudani
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2014
Jigokudani is located in the valley of the Yokoyu River, in Nagano Prefecture, in Japan, at an elevation of 850 meters. Literally “hell’s va...
Cape Agulhas: The Place Where Two Oceans Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2014
When Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias rounded the rocky headland of South Africa’s Cape Peninsula in 1488, he became the first European t...
The Iconic Gold Hill of Shaftesbury
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2014
Gold Hill, in the town of Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset, is a picturesque steep cobbled street. The street was made famous by ...
Patrick Dougherty’s Twig Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2014
North Carolina-based artist Patrick Dougherty has gained an international reputation for weaving tree saplings into massive, swirling forms...
Pearl-Qatar, A Luxurious Artificial Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2014
The Pearl-Qatar in Doha, Qatar, is a luxurious residential complex that is being developed on an artificial island, off the coast of Doha’s ...
Gubbio’s Enormous Christmas Tree on Mount Ingino
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2014
Every year on Christmas, the small medieval town of Gubbio, in northern Italy, lights up the world’s biggest Christmas tree on the slopes of...
Auckland, The City of Volcanoes
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2014
Auckland, the largest and most populous city of New Zealand, straddles a volcanic field that contains no less than 50 volcanoes. These volca...
Winter in Riisitunturi National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2014
Riisitunturi National Park is situated in the southern part of Finnish Lapland near Posio, in Finland. The park covers an area of 77 square ...
The Long and Lonely Eyre Highway: Australia’s Longest Straight Road
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2014
Imagine a drive, a thousand miles long with no turns or bends, across a vast featureless plain with repetitive landscape, and hundreds of ki...
Széchenyi Thermal Bath in Budapest
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2014
The Széchenyi Thermal Bath is the largest medicinal bath and one of the largest public baths in Europe, located in the northern end of City ...
Bill Fink Creates Photorealistic Images Out of Literally Anything
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2014
Artist and photographer Bill Fink is the mastermind behind “ Time and Matter Photography ”, an art form that involves producing photorealist...
World Toilet Day: Toilets Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2014
Pooping may be a subject of potty humor in the West, but for millions of people in underdeveloped countries around the world, sanitation is ...
Damien Hirst Builds Cityscapes From Surgical Tools
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2014
What at first appears to be black and white aerial images of cities are actually recreations by renowned British artist Damien Hirst using v...
Ifrane, The Switzerland of Morocco
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2014
If the name Morocco conjures up images of a place with narrow, maze like streets lined with old earth-colored buildings, you are not alone. ...
The Trans-Amazonian Highway: An Ecological Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2014
The Trans-Amazonian highway is a 5,000 kilometre road which cuts across the heart of the Amazon forest, spanning Brazil from the coastal cit...
Hay-on-Wye: The Town of Books
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2014
Hay-on-Wye is a small market town and community on the banks of the river Wye in Powys, Wales, adjacent to the English border. Often describ...
Survival Condo Project: A Luxurious Underground Doomsday Bunker
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2014
The Survival Condo Project is a luxury condo complex housed in a former underground missile silo near Concordia, in Kansas, in the US. Locat...
The Stone Towers Of Svaneti, Georgia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2014
The ancient province of Svaneti in Georgia, is located on the southern slopes of the Caucasus mountain range, on the north-western part of t...
