The Sign Post Forest of Watson Lake, Canada
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2015
One of the quirkiest attraction along the Alaska Highway is located near the town of Watson Lake, in Yukon territory, Canada. It’s a “forest...
The World’s Most Depressing Place Names
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2015
There are some really sad places on earth. Countries torn by war and violence. Countries reeling under poverty. Those places are truly depre...
A Giant Sequoia Dedicated to President George Bush
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2015
In 1992, US President George Bush (senior) stood under a giant sequoia tree inside Giant Sequoia National Monument in eastern California, an...
The Historic Blast Furnace at The Port of Sagunto
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2015
The port city of Sagunto is located on the Mediterranean Sea, in Eastern Spain, about 30 km north of Valencia. The city was found more than ...
The Historic Bridge of Plaka
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2015
The Plaka Bridge, over Arachthos River, was the largest stone one-arch bridge in Greece and the Balkans, and the third largest one-arch ston...
A Butte Called Mollie’s Nipple
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2015
Mollie's Nipple (also spelled Mollies Nipple, without an apostrophe) is a basalt-capped hill that rises more than 1,300 feet above the s...
The Lithium Mine Fields of Atacama Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2015
In the wastelands of Salar de Atacama, about 700 miles north of Santiago, is a huge lithium mine field operated by Sociedad QuÃmica y Minera...
There is Nothing in Arizona
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2015
In a bare stretch of US Highway 93, between mile markers 148 and 149, stands Nothing, a small abandoned “town” with literally nothing to see...
Monte Kaolino, An Artificial Sand Hill Popular For Sand Skiing
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2015
Monte Kaolino is a 120-meters tall sand dune located in the outskirts of the city of Hirschau, in southeast Germany. It consists of approxim...
Alaska’s Giant Vegetables
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2015
The Alaska State Fair held annually in Palmer, 42 miles northeast of Anchorage, is not your regular agricultural show. Here farmers from the...
Prague’s Narrowest Street is So Narrow it Has Traffic Lights For Pedestrians
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2015
In the heart of Prague’s oldest neighborhood, the historic Mala Strana or “Little Quarter”, there is a street so narrow that it’s impossible...
Warm Blooded Plants
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2015
Between late February and May, in woodlands and wetlands throughout eastern Canada and the northeast United States, you’ll find a low growin...
The Tree of Life in Kalaloch, Washington
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2015
There is an extraordinary tree in Kalaloch beach, within Olympic National Park in Washington, that some people call “the tree of life” becau...
Eisinga Planetarium: The World’s Oldest Working Planetarium
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2015
The world’s oldest working planetarium is located in the living room of a small, two-story house in the city of Franeker, in the Netherlands...
Unexploded Bombs Find Everyday Use in Laos’ Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2015
The Vietnam War ended 40 years ago, but left a deadly legacy, especially in Laos. The US military dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs ...
Randy Hage’s Miniature Models of New York City Storefronts
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2015
Randy Hage has been visiting New York twice a year since the late 90s, but he is not attracted by the city’s iconic buildings and tourist a...
Paris Plages: The Artificial Beaches of Paris
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2015
Every year since 2002, a section of the pedestrian bank along the river Seine, in the center of Paris, is transformed into a beach, in a pop...
The Granite Dells of Prescott, Arizona
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2015
Located outside the city of Prescott in the US state of Arizona, is a unique geological formation called Granite Dells, consisting of massiv...
The Ames Pyramid: A Monument to The Forgotten Brothers
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2015
Standing utterly alone in the windswept plateau of Albany County, Wyoming, a couple of miles off Interstate 80 and accessible only by a dirt...
The Abandoned Refrigerators of Katrina
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 16, 2015
Hurricane Katrina, that ravaged the Gulf Coast and the entire city of New Orleans in the summer of 2005, ruined a lot of household appliance...
