The Neon Museum of Las Vegas
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2015
Not too far from the Las Vegas strip lies a junkyard filled with huge neon signs – signs that once proudly adorned such famous nightclubs an...
The Maunsell Sea Forts
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2015
The Maunsell Sea Forts in the estuaries of rivers Thames and Mersey were built to help defend the United Kingdom during the second World War...
Hacienda Nápoles: The Home of a Former Drug Lord, Now a Theme Park
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2015
About 180 km south-east of Medellin, is Puerto Triunfo, a small municipality and town in the department of Antioquia. It was here that Colom...
Encontro das Aguas - The Meeting of Waters
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2015
About 10 kilometers from the inland city of Manaus in northern Brazil, the black Rio Negro river, which flows through the city, meet the san...
Dasht-e Kavir, The Great Salt Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2015
Dasht-e Kavir, also known the Great Salt Desert, is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian plateau, about 300 kilometers east-sou...
The Strange Beauty of Soviet Bus Stops
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2015
Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig travelled through the length and breadth of the former Soviet Union to document a curious phenomen...
The Newspaper Rock in Utah
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2015
Newspaper Rock is a 200 square foot rock surface in San Juan County, Utah, that is covered by hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs — rock ...
The Trestles of Myra Canyon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2015
The Myra Canyon section of the Kettle Valley Railway in southern British Columbia, Canada, is a 9.6 km section of railway tracks along the f...
Gas Works Park in Seattle
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2015
Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington, is an unusual public park located on the site of a former coal gasification plant, on the shores of L...
Scars of World War I: The Battlefield of Beaumont-Hamel
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2015
The village of Beaumont-Hamel, in northern France, was one of the fortress villages located just behind the German lines during the Battle o...
The Hot Sand Baths of Siwa
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2015
Between July to September, during the hottest months of the year when temperature hovers around 37 degrees in the shade, people from all ove...
The Hindenburgdamm Causeway
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2015
The Hindenburgdamm or Hindenburg Dam is an 11 km-long causeway joining the North Frisian island of Sylt to mainland Schleswig-Holstein, off ...
Ella & Pitr’s Giant Murals of Sleeping People
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2015
French street artist duo Ella and Pitr, from the city of Saint-Etienne, has created a name for themselves in the world of street art over th...
The Planetarium of Nagoya City Science Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2015
The Nagoya City Science Museum, at the center of Nagoya City in central Japan, can be easily recognized by its enormous silver globe, called...
5 Most Impressive Blue Holes Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2015
A blue hole is an underwater sinkhole formed by the erosion of carbonate rocks and appears as a dark blue circle of water in the ocean. Blue...
Sand Mandala: The Tibetan Art of Intricate Sand Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2015
Mandalas are spiritual and ritual symbols in Hinduism and Buddhism that represent the universe. It’s an ancient Sanskrit word that means “ci...
Guided Busways
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2015
Between Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives in the English county of Cambridgeshire, runs a special bus service over a special route that cons...
Crested Saguaro Cactus
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2015
The giant saguaro cactus is a universal symbol of the American west. These plants are native to only a small region of southern Arizona, the...
The Hanging Pillar of Lepakshi Temple
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2015
The beautiful 16th century Veerabhadra temple, also known as Lepakshi temple, is located in the small historical village of Lepakshi in the ...
Ruhr’s Slag Heap Tourism
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2015
The Ruhr region in North Rhine-Westphalia, is naturally flat but dotted with hundreds of small man-made hills. These impressive elevations a...
