Iceland Opens Man-Made Ice Tunnel in Langjokull Glacier
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2015
The world’s largest man-made ice tunnel was recently dug out on the western slopes of one of the biggest glaciers in Iceland - Langjokull. T...
The 5Pointz Graffiti Building in Long Island
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2015
5Pointz was an outdoor art exhibit space at 45–46 Davis Street in Long Island, New York City, where colorful murals were exhibited on the ex...
The 1,600 Stone Pillars of Lovamahapaya
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2015
Lovamahapaya was an ancient building located between Ruvanveliseya and Sri Mahabodiya in the ancient city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, 200 km...
Noorderlicht: The Ice-bound Ship Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2015
Noorderlicht, or Northern Lights in Dutch, is a two-masted schooner that spends the summer taking tourists around the Arctic region, particu...
The Nutty Narrows Bridge for Squirrels
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2015
When human progress clashes with nature and wildlife habitat, it becomes necessary to provide a safe haven for animals in the form of wildli...
Adhesive Tape Street Art by Buff Diss
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2015
Melbourne-based street artist Buff Diss creates beautiful graffiti art, not by using spray paint and stencils, but adhesive tapes. Because ...
The Ottery Tar Barrels Burning Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2015
Every year on November 5th, for reasons lost in antiquity, the villagers of Ottery St Mary, Devon in England’s West Country race through the...
China’s Air Pollution And Scrapped Vehicles
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2015
China has been cracking down on high-emission vehicles in an effort to reduce pollution, leading to an increase in the number of recycling c...
Nauru: An Island Country Destroyed by Phosphate Mining
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2015
Nauru is a small island country, a speck in the Pacific Ocean, with an area of only 21-square-kilometers. It is the smallest state in the So...
Murphy's Haystacks
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2015
Murphy’s Haystacks are a group of ancient, wind-worn rock of pink granite located between Streaky Bay and Port Kenny on the Eyre Peninsula i...
The Volcano House of Newberry Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2015
The Volcano House is a flying-saucer-shaped house that sits atop a 150-foot tall cinder cone of an extinct volcano in the western Mojave Des...
The Cooper-Young Trestle Gateway
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2015
The historic neighborhood of Copper-Young in the Midtown section of Memphis, in the United States, named for its placement at the intersecti...
Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A Dancing Power Pole in Oberhausen
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2015
On the banks of the Emscher River, near the wooded public garden Gehölzgarten Ripshorst, in the German city of Oberhausen, stands a peculiar...
The Painted Dunes of Lassen Volcanic National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2015
The Painted Dunes are multicolored pumice fields formed by oxidation of volcanic ash as they fell out of volcanic eruptions that have sculpt...
Svinafellsjokull Glacier: The Real Life Location of Dr Mann’s Planet
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2015
Iceland, with its stunning landscape forged by breathtaking glaciers and angry volcanic forces, is lately turning out to be Hollywood’s favo...
Watermelon Snow
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2015
In the high alpine region, at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet, sometimes patches of pink or red appear on snow. The phenomenon is commonl...
Denver Chalk Art Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2015
The Denver Chalk Art Festival is an annual two-day street painting festival that takes place on Larimer Square in Denver, the United States....
Old Semiconductor Factories Turned Into High-Tech Farms
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2015
What is Toshiba’s latest product? A laptop? A TV? How about lettuce? The Japanese electronics manufacturer, that has a lineage dating back ...
Flysch Formation in Zumaia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2015
Flysch is a sedimentary rock formed by the alternate deposition of thin layers of silt and sandstone, found near shorelines that were rapidl...
The Floating Houses of IJburg, Amsterdam
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2015
The IJburg neighbourhood is the latest district of Amsterdam built over a number of artificial islands which have been raised from the IJmee...
