An Abandoned Fishing Village on Gouqi Island, China
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2015
Gouqi Island belongs to a group of nearly 400 islands known as Shengsi Islands, and form a part of the Zhoushan Archipelago, located outside...
Guy Laramee’s Latest Book Carvings of Brazilian Mountains
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2015
Master sculptor Guy Laramee ( previously on Amusing Planet ) who specializes in book carving has unveiled his latest series of book sculptu...
Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2015
For as long as one can remember, the people of Belgium wanted to have an inland waterway that connected the Meuse river with the Scheldt riv...
Heligoland: the German Island the British Tried to Destroy
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2015
At the end of the Second World War, the British Army had a huge surplus of ammunition and explosives that started to give them ideas. It was...
Which Airports are Farthest From the City They Serve?
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2015
A city always begins with one airport, usually located outside the city limits to allow the city some space to grow, but still close enough ...
Manik & Ratan’s Pet Dragon Interacts With Everyday Objects
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2015
“Everything we know about you guys is wrong,” said Hiccup in the DreamWorks Animation movie How to Train Your Dragon . “They're not what...
Lunar Crater National Natural Landmark
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2015
The Lunar Crater National Natural Landmark is a volcanic field located 110 km east-northeast of Tonopah in Nye County, in central Nevada. Th...
St. Louis City Museum in an Abandoned Shoe Factory
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2015
The City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, isn’t really a museum. It’s actually a 600,000 square-foot playground housed in a former shoe factor...
The Gaudy South Indian Houses That Inspired Ettore Sottsass
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2015
Tiruvannamalai, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a small town of 144,000-odd people with a strange taste in architecture. The hou...
Etang de Montady: The Drained Pond of Montady
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2015
If you look up Montady on Google Maps, in the department of Hérault, in southern France, you will see a strange agricultural field. Long lin...
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...
