The Betel Nut Beauties of Taiwan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2015
Scantily clad young women sitting inside brightly-lit glass kiosks with flashing lights and neon signs are a common sight along Taiwan's...
Used Wimbledon Tennis Balls Become Tiny Homes for Mice
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2015
Every year, an astonishing number of tennis balls are used during the Wimbledon tournament — more than 54,000 . This high figure is due to t...
The Steps of Pittsburgh
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2015
The city of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, the United States, is located over an unruly terrain of hills, hollows, valleys and three intersecti...
Banksy Opens Satirical Amusement Park ‘Dismaland’ in UK
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2015
Britain’s most celebrated artist Banksy has opened a new exhibition called ‘ Dismaland ’, which he describes as a “family theme park unsuita...
The Santa Justa Elevator in Lisbon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 20, 2015
The Santa Justa Elevator, Elevador de Santa Justa in Portuguese, is a historic outdoor elevator located in the civil parish of Santa Justa,...
Keep What You Find at The Crater of Diamonds
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 20, 2015
The Crater of Diamonds in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, the United States, is the world’s only diamond mine open to the public, where by paying a ...
China’s New Motorway is Built Over Water
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2015
China has opened a new stretch of road that connects Xingshang County to the Zhaojun Bridge in central China’s Hubei province. A 4-km-long s...
One Square Mile of Hope: The Largest Raft of Canoes and Kayaks
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2015
On September 13, 2014, a total of exactly 3,150 canoes and kayaks converged on Fourth Lake in the town of Inlet, in New York to set a new Gu...
The Folded Rocks of Sideling Hill Road Cut
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2015
The Sideling Hill is a long, steep, narrow mountain ridge that runs north to south across western Maryland in Washington County, in the Unit...
The Petrifying Well of Knaresborough
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2015
On the banks of the river Nidd, near the town of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, is one of the oldest ‘entrance charging’ tourist attracti...
SAIL Amsterdam
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2015
SAIL Amsterdam is one of the biggest attractions in Amsterdam and the greatest nautical spectacle in the world where scores of tall ships an...
Bekonscot: The World’s Oldest Model Village
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2015
Bekonscot is a toy village located in the English town of Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire. Spread out over 1.5 acres, this Lilliputian vill...
The 1,444 Carved Pillars of Ranakpur Jain Temple No Two of Which Are Alike
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2015
Ranakpur is a village located in the lush green valley of Aravalli mountain ranges in Pali district of Rajasthan, in western India. It is ho...
Europe’s Disappearing Borders by Valerio Vincenzo
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2015
Ever since the Schengen Agreement was signed in 1985, internal borders between a large number of European countries are gradually disappeari...
‘The Force of Nature’ by Lorenzo Quinn
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2015
“The Force of Nature” is a series of sculptures by Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn depicting mother nature as a woman hurling the planet aroun...
Ohio’s BibleWalk Museum is Made Up Of Discarded Celebrity Wax Figures
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2015
Ohio’s only life-size wax museum, BibleWalk, is located in the city of Mansfield. A tribute to Christianity, the museum has more than 300 fi...
Cross Sea: When Two Waves Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2015
This strange pattern at sea is what happens when two wave systems cross each other at nearly perpendicular angles. This can occur when waves...
The "Big Oil Bubble", a Chinese Knockoff of Chicago’s Famous “Bean”
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2015
China’s latest knockoff of a widely recognizable landmark is taking shape in the city of Karmay. It’s a huge shiny, bean-shaped sculpture th...
Scars of World War I: The Battlefield of Verdun
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2015
One of the longest and deadliest battle of the First World War was fought over a small parcel of land in north-eastern France, near the comm...
The 100 Stepped Garden of Awaji Yumebutai
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2015
Awaji Yumebutai is a complex of buildings consisting of a conference center, a hotel and a memorial in the city of Awaji located in an islan...
