Panathenaic Stadium: The Birthplace of Modern Olympics
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2015
The first modern Olympic Games was held in the summer of 1896 in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, that saw the participation of 241 athlet...
Towns of Twins
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2015
The University of Texas estimates that 32 out of every 1,000 people in this world are a twin or 16 pairs in 1,000, which translates to 3 pe...
The Mysterious Lakes of Badain Jaran Desert
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2015
The Badain Jaran Desert occupies parts of China and Inner Mongolia covering an area of 49,000 sq. kilometers making it the third largest des...
Kuthodaw Pagoda And The World's Largest Book
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2015
Kuthodaw Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa, located at the foot of Mandalay Hill in Mandalay, Burma. It was built during the reign of King Mindon M...
For What It’s Worth: Visualizing Yield of Gold and Diamond Mines
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2015
South African photographer Dillon Marsh , continues with his photo project “For What It’s Worth” that attempts to quantify mining by visuali...
The Mud Brick Villages of Wadi Hadramaut and Wadi Dawan
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2015
Yemen in a desert country located on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, bordered by the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in the ...
The Disappearing Lake Urmia of Iran
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2015
Lake Urmia, in north-western Iran, was once one of the largest permanent saline lake in the world and the second largest in the Middle East,...
Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex: A Giant Military Complex That Was Operational For Only 24 Hours
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2015
At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet nuclear attack was a genuine threat and the United States decided that a defense program was needed ...
Hollow Heart in Watermelon
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2015
You might assume that this watermelon here has been carved by hand, but actually is completely natural. This strange condition is known as “...
The Stone Walls of Ireland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2015
Travelling across rural Ireland from the east to the west, one thing that arouses curiosity among many first time visitors is the hundreds o...
The Pyramid Tomb of Nicholas Cage
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2015
Last time I checked, Nicholas Cage was not dead. Neither he was a Pharaoh. Yet, he has his own pyramid tomb in the thickly populated St. Lou...
The Submerged Bridge Over Biel Water in Belhaven Bay
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2015
The Biel Water is a small river running through the village of Biel to the south of Dunbar, in Scotland. It runs for 4.5 kilometers from the...
Creux du Van: A Natural Rocky Arena in Switzerland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2015
Located on the border of the Swiss cantons of Neuchâtel and Vaud is "Creux du Van", a scenic, horseshoe-shaped limestone cliff of ...
The Unusual Salt Industry of Teguidda-n-Tessoumt
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2015
Roughly 200 km northwest of the city of Agadez, in northern Niger, lies a tiny village of around 50 families called Teguidda-n-Tessoumt. The...
The Geometry of Plants
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2015
Looking around, you might imagine that branches, leaves and flowers grow at random, haphazardly. The truth is, however, that the points at w...
Fabian Oefner’s Fascinating Photos of Paint and Motion
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2015
Swiss artist Fabian Oefner creates colorful art by harnessing scientific properties in an effort to bring our attention to the beauty of th...
Chan Chan: World’s Largest Adobe City
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2015
Located near the Pacific coast in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, 5 km west of Trujillo, Chan Chan was the largest Pre-Columbian city in...
Topiary Garden Cemetery of Tulcan
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2015
Tulcán, the capital of the province of Carchi in Ecuador, is a small city of 60,000, situated right on the border between Ecuador and Colomb...
A Restaurant With Goats On The Roof
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2015
Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant and Butik is a family owned, casual dining restaurant in the village of Sister Bay in Door County, Wisco...
Stingray City, Grand Cayman
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2015
Stingray City is an area of shallow sandbars in the North Sound of Grand Cayman, in Cayman Islands, in western Caribbean Sea. It’s Cayman Is...
