Abandoned Tempelhof Airport Now Berlin’s Largest Park
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2015
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin was once the largest and busiest in Germany, and one of Europe's iconic airports of the pre-World War II...
Sumo Wrestlers Scare Babies at Nakizumo Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2015
Every spring, a fierce competition takes place between enormous sumo wrestlers, but they aren’t wrestling each other to the ground. They...
Scaly-foot Gastropod: The Snail With an Armor of Iron
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2015
Deep in the Indian Ocean, near extremely hot hydrothermal vents, where scalding hot water erupts in tall, blacky columns, lives an extraordi...
Zaatari Refugee Camp: A City of its Own
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2015
When civil war erupted in Syria in 2011, more than three and a half million Syrians fled the country to the neighboring countries of Turkey,...
A-maze-ing Laughter in Vancouver
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2015
A-maze-ing Laughter is a collection of 14 enormous bronze statues depicting a shirtless guy laughing hysterically. It was installed in 2009 ...
Dampfmaschinenhaus: A Mosque Shaped Pump House in Potsdam
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2015
The Dampfmaschinenhaus at the Neustädter Havelbucht in Potsdam, Germany, looks like a Turkish mosque but is actually a pumping station in di...
Trees That Grow Into Furniture
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2015
A UK-based furniture company called Full Grown , started by furniture designer Gavin Munro, doesn’t take wood and make them into furniture. ...
The Hand of Punta del Este
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2015
The Hand of Punta del Este, or Mano de Punta del Este , is a sculpture of a hand partially emerging from sand and located at Brava Beach in ...
Catching Salmons With Fish Wheels
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2015
A fish wheel is a water-powered device used for catching fish, particularly adult salmon, and consist of a revolving wheel with baskets and ...
Potash Evaporation Ponds in Utah
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2015
These electric blue shapes in the brown desert are potash evaporation ponds managed by Intrepid Potash, Inc., the United States’ largest pro...
Nilometer: Ancient Structures Used to Measure the Level of River Nile
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2015
Every year the river Nile begins to rise in the summer, the water overflows its banks and deposits slit on the surrounding floodplain. It is...
The Cardrona Bra Fence
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2015
The Cardrona Bra Fence of Central Otago, New Zealand, began in 1999 some time between Christmas and New Year, when four women's bras wer...
Clootie Wells: The Celtic Wishing Trees
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2015
The tradition of making offerings at wishing trees and wells dates back hundreds of years, and can be found all over the world in different ...
The Beautiful Uummannaq Island, Greenland
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2015
Uummannaq is a picturesque island and town in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in northwestern Greenland, located 590 kilometers north of the Ar...
A Glue-less Paper Bridge That You Can Walk Over
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2015
British artist Steve Messam has installed a bright red, weight-bearing arch bridge across a stream in the rural Lake District National Park...
Monte Testaccio: The 2,000-year-old Garbage Dump in Rome
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2015
On the outskirts of Rome, near the Horrea Galbae, a short distance away from the east bank of the River Tiber, lies an enormous mound overgr...
Mill Ends Park: World’s Smallest Park
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2015
Mill Ends Park in Portland, the United States, is only two feet in diameter and is really just a flower pot, but don’t say that aloud, espec...
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2015
On the third floor of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the state of Maryland, in Baltimore, the United States, the chief medical...
Spiders Rain Down on Australian Town
Kaushik Patowary
May 20, 2015
While raining cats and dogs is only a metaphor, raining spiders is a reality in Australia. The latest arachnid shower took place last week i...
Ducks Get Their Own Lane in Britain
Kaushik Patowary
May 20, 2015
Ducks and ducklings can appear in the most unlikely places, such as in the middle of a busy street walking single-file or nesting under balc...
