The 1,800-Km-Long Hand-Dug Grand Canal of China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2014
The Grand Canal is a series of waterways in eastern and northern China starting at Beijing and ending at the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang pr...
Tollund Man, The 2,400 Year Old Bog Body
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2014
Over the past few centuries, men harvesting peat in European bogs have discovered the preserved remains of hundreds of human corpses called ...
Y-40 Deep Joy: World's Deepest Swimming Pool
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2014
Y-40 “Deep Joy” is the world's deepest pool, at 42 meters deep, a height equivalent to that of a 14-storey building. The pool measures 2...
Bubble Gum Walls: America’s Stickiest Attractions
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2014
Chewing gum litter is a major problem in western countries. According to a study conducted in 2005, Americans chew, on average, 160-180 piec...
The Fishing Village of Al Max, Alexandria
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2014
Al Max (also spelled El Max) is one of the neighbourhoods of the city of Alexandria in Egypt, located in the Department of Amriya district i...
The Saar Loop at Mettlach
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2014
The Saar River rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine, in France, then flows northward through western Germany t...
Herodium: The Palace and Tomb of King Herod
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2014
Located 12 km south of Jerusalem, in the Judean desert, Herodium looks like an extinct volcano, but it really is a fort built by King Herod ...
Padrão dos Descobrimentos: The Discoveries Monument in Lisbon
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2014
The Portuguese were prolific explorers. Starting from the early 15th century, under the sponsorship of prince Henry the Navigator, several P...
The Peeing Statues of Brussels
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2014
One of the most iconic symbols of Brussels is not a majestic bridge or a tower or a cathedral, but a tiny statue of a little boy happily pis...
The Needles of Isle of Wight
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2014
The Needles is a row of three detached masses of chalk that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, in UK, close...
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 ...
