Native American Trail Marker Trees
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2015
All throughout North America there are trees that are peculiarly bent out of shape, but they are not some quirks of nature. Rather, they wer...
The Painted Monument to the Soviet Army in Bulgaria
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2015
The Monument to the Soviet Army is located in the King’s Garden in the heart of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. Built in 1954, it was create...
The Primeval Beech Forests of Shirakami Sanchi
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2015
Shirakami Sanchi in an extensive wilderness area of unspoiled virgin forest covering one third of Shirakami mountain range that straddles th...
The Tree of Tule
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2015
El Árbol del Tule, Spanish for “The Tree of Tule”, is a mighty Montezuma cypress located in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the M...
The 98 Rock of Wake Island
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2015
Wake Island is a coral atoll located in the North Pacific Ocean, just north of the Marshall Islands. The island is an unorganized, unincorpo...
The Inclined Boat Lifts of Elblag Canal
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2015
The Elblag Canal, also called the Elblag-Ostroda Canal, is a 150-years-old canal in Poland that runs from Elblag to Ostroda. At over 80 km i...
La Brea Tar Pits And The Fossils Within
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2015
The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of tar pits in urban Los Angeles, around which Hancock Park was formed. The pits are one of the world's...
Glacial Grooves on Kelley's Island
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2015
Many of the geological features on the surface of this planet has been shaped by ancient glaciers. These gigantic sheets of ice of immense w...
Museé Miniature et Cinéma: The Museum of Miniatures
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2015
Museé Miniature et Cinéma or “the Miniature and Cinema Museum” is located at 60 Rue Saint-Jean in Lyon, France, housed in a magnificent 16t...
The Eroding Alaskan Village of Shishmaref
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2015
Shishmaref is a small village of about 600 people located on Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait and five mi...
The Hidden Town of Monemvasia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2015
Monemvasia is a Gibraltar-like rocky island off the east coast of the Peloponnese, in Greece, and linked to the mainland by a short causeway...
The Crooked Houses of Lavenham
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2015
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat,...
Lake Spirit's Gigantic Tree Trunk Mat
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 26, 2015
The May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, a volcano located in state of Washington, was one of the most destructive events in the histo...
Taiwanese Village Transforms Itself With Cartoon Murals
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2015
Three sisters have unleashed a new life into the streets of the small Taiwanese village of Huija with a series of colourful murals. The sist...
Eski Kerman, An Ancient Cave City in Crimea
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2015
Eski Kermen is a medieval town located just 6 km from Mangupa, in the Bakhchisaray region in Crimea. The town is located atop one of the fla...
World’s Highest Speed Limit at Holloman Air Force Base
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2015
If highway speed limits of 70-80 miles per hour is too slow for you, pay a visit to Holloman Air Force Base in south-central New Mexico, in ...
Gotokuji: The Temple of The Beckoning Cats
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2015
Many Japanese shops, restaurants and other businesses keep a little cat doll with its paw raised near their entrances. It is a common Japane...
The Great Gorge of the Ruth Glacier
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2015
The Ruth Glacier, in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska, covers an enormous area in the heart of the central Alas...
Blythe Intaglios: The Nazca Lines of America
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2015
About 15 miles north of Blythe, just west of U.S. Highway 95 near the Colorado River, are a group of gigantic geoglyphs. There are a total o...
Bioparc Valencia: The Immersive Zoo
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2015
Bioparc Valencia is a small (25-acre) zoo in Valencia, Spain, with a large collection of African animals. Unlike your average zoo where anim...
