The Colorful Side of Istanbul
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2015
Photographic representation of Istanbul has always been stereotypical - towering mosques, ornate palaces, old streets, markets and seagulls...
7 Famous Man-Made Geysers
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2015
Geysers are a rare phenomenon because they require a specific set of conditions to occur. Generally geysers can be found near active volcani...
Cabo Polonio: An Idyllic Tourist Village Without Electricity, Running Water or TV
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2015
Cabo Polonio is a small beach village located at the tip of a sliver of sand jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean in the eastern coast of Uru...
The Recursive Model Villages of Bourton-on-the-Water
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2015
Bourton-on-the-Water is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England that lies on a wide flat vale within the “Cotswolds Area of O...
The Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2015
Timmelsjoch is a high mountain pass on Ötztal Alps along the border between Austria and Italy. The pass connects the Ötztal valley in the Au...
Bastoy Prison: The World’s Nicest Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2015
About 75 kilometers off the coast of Oslo in Norway, is an island that's home to some 115 criminals, including the the country’s most da...
Wistman’s Wood
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2015
Wistman's Wood is a small, remote, ancient woodland area on Dartmoor in England, on the slopes of the West Dart River. Covering just eig...
The Limestone Pavements of Orton Fells
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2015
The Orton Fells, located to the east of Lake District, in Cumbria County, in England, is an area of remarkable geology. This vast area bound...
The Friendly Crocodiles of Paga
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2015
Crocodiles are generally aggressive, but not in the town of Paga. This small town in northern Ghana, nestled right up against the border of ...
The Cascaded Mills of Folon and Picon
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2015
The mills of Folon and Picon are a collection of 60 mills located on the slopes of Monte Campo do Couto, in the Spanish municipality of El R...
The Awkward Mud Bath at El Totumo Mud Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2015
El Totumo Mud Volcano is located in northern Colombia in the municipality of Santa Catalina, about 50 km northeast of Cartagena. The volcani...
Lauterbrunnen: The Valley of 72 Waterfalls
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2015
Tucked away in the Bernese Oberland of the Swiss Alps, about 70km southeast of Bern, lies the valley of Lauterbrunnen, regarded as one of th...
Hundred Island National Park Philippines
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2015
The Hundred Islands National Park actually consist of 124 separate islands (123 at high tide) scattered in Lingayen Gulf in northern Philipp...
The Lakes of Ubari Sand Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2015
The Ubari Sand Sea is a vast area of towering sand dunes in the Fezzan region of south-western Libya. But 200,000 years ago, this was a wet ...
Ocean Waves Glass Sculptures
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2015
These beautiful glass sculptures depicting ocean waves were made by Paul DeSomma and Marsha Blaker , a husband and wife team, known internat...
The Les Mées Solar Farm in France
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2015
The Les Mées solar farm is located in the rolling hills of La Colle des Mées plateau, in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in south...
The Last Surviving Chained Libraries
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2015
Before the printing press made books cheap and easily available, books in the Middle Ages were incredibly scarce and precious. Without a met...
The National 9/11 Memorial Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2015
The National 9/11 Memorial Museum, located at the former site of the World Trade Center in New York, was opened in May 2014 to honor the nea...
Supai: An Isolated Indian Village Inside the Grand Canyon
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2015
Despite being one of the most visited places in the United States, the Grand Canyon area in Arizona, still holds secrets. One of these is th...
Gravity Train as Energy Storage
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2015
Energy grids running on renewable energy sources need storage. The most common way to store energy on a grid scale is through “pumped” hydro...
