The Circus of Bath
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2015
The Circus, Latin for “circular”, is an iconic building in the city of Bath, in Somerset, in England, consisting of three curved segments of...
China is Building The World's Largest Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2015
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will soon lose its title of the largest single aperture radio telescope ever constructed. The Chines...
The Slag Heaps of Loos-en-Gohelle
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2015
In the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, a former mining town in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, are a series of five conical hills, of w...
Tanaka Tatsuya’s Miniature Calendar
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2015
Japanese artist Tanaka Tatsuya has been photographing his collection of diorama dolls interacting with everyday objects he finds around his ...
The Log House of Nikolay Sutyagin
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2015
Not many years ago, in northern Russia, on the outskirts of the city of Archangel, by the Dvina River, stood a tall wooden house — a whimsic...
Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2015
The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is located at Disney's Hollywood Studios, one of the four main theme parks at Walt Disney World, i...
Kuthiny Baty: The Pumice Stone Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 3, 2015
At the southern tip of Kamchatka Peninsula, within the Southern Kamchatka Wildlife Refuge in Russia, lies Kurile Lake in a large caldera tha...
The Great Polish Map of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 3, 2015
The Great Polish Map of Scotland, also known as the Mapa Scotland, is a large three-dimensional, scale model of Scotland, with lakes, mounta...
The “Submarine Pits” on Boca Chica Key
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2015
Boca Chica Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately 4.8 km east of the island of Key West, which itself is about 244 km sout...
Todra Gorge of Morocco
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2015
In the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, near the town of Tinerhir, the Todra and the Dades Rivers have carved out a narr...
Scarecrow Festivals in the UK
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2015
Scarecrow festivals are held all over the world, but they are especially popular in the United Kingdom, where the use of scarecrows as a pro...
Auckland’s Utility Boxes Get Graffiti Makeover
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2015
Auckland-born artist Paul Walsh has been painting telephone utility boxes around his home city since 2013 with animal characters inspired b...
Singapore’s Playgrounds From Above
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2015
Malaysia-born and Singapore-raised renowned photographer Stefen Chow, in collaboration with a local company called Avetics, flew drones all ...
Half Animal, Half Plant: The Solar-Powered Sea Slugs
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2015
Can eating lots of vegetables turn you into a vegetable? Not really, unless you are a sea slug. There are several species of sea slugs that...
Pencil Tip Sculptures by Salavat Fidai
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2015
Russian artist Salavat Fidai carves miniature sculptures on the lead tip of pencils, an art form he was inspired by another well-known mini...
RATAN-600, The World’s Largest Radio Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2015
RATAN-600 (short for Radio Astronomical Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) is a radio telescope located near the village of Zelenchukskay...
The Leper Tree of Malawi
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2015
Leprosy is a curable disease, but less than seventy years ago, people were dying from it. After the end of the 17th century, leprosy became ...
The Train to Heaven in Wroclaw
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2015
The Train to Heaven is a monument depicting an old, real steam locomotive standing upright and pointing towards the sky, located at Strzegom...
Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans 2015
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2015
Sea Walls: Murals for Oceans is an ongoing street art festival taking place in the island of Cozumel, in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern c...
The Narrowest Streets in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2015
At what point does a street cease to be a street? According to the Guinness Book of Records, the narrowest street in the world is located in...
