The Sad Grave of Kate McCormick
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 20, 2015
In a quite corner of the Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis oldest active, is the grave of 21 year old woman who died after childbirth on February 1,...
The Most Bizarre Versions of Stonehenge
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2015
The ancient and mysterious Stonehenge, in the plains of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England, is arguably one of the most famous monuments in the...
Patterned Grounds
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2015
The repeated annual freezing and thawing of permafrost soils can produce very interesting geometric features called patterned ground. These ...
Al Bahar Towers’ Responsive Sun Shades
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2015
Glass-façade towers are popping up every where with little thought and consideration for the local climate, even in the harsh desert environ...
The Chapel of The Holy Cross in Sedona
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2015
Jutting out of the red sandstone walls in the Arizona desert, the Chapel of the Holy Cross near the town of Sedona, is a marvel of modern ar...
A Used Car Vending Machine in Nashville
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2015
Online used car retailer Carvana , that has revolutionized how people buy cars, is back with another innovation — the world’s first coin ope...
Ships Made of Concrete
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2015
Perhaps the most bizarre choice of material humans ever made to make a vessel that floats was reinforced concrete. For centuries ships have ...
Pavlov’s House in Volgograd
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2015
On the banks of river Volga in the heart of modern-day Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, stands a four-story apartment building with a brick m...
Dig Your Own Fossils at These Quarries
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 16, 2015
People knew about fossils since the time of Herodotus, but it was only in the late 18th and early 19th century, when the importance of fossi...
Musical Roads That Play Melodies When Cars Drive Over
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 16, 2015
A Japanese engineer by the name of Shizuo Shinoda was digging with a bulldozer when he accidentally scraped some markings into a road with i...
Crooked, Drunken And Dancing Forests
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
A tree, when left to its own device, will normally grow straight. But when the tree is young and its trunk is tender, it can be forced to gr...
A Tsunami of Shelf Cloud Over Sydney
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
For the last few days, social media is awash with photographs of an extraordinary roll of cloud that has acquired the moniker of “cloud tsun...
The EVE Online Monument in Reykjavik
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 12, 2015
In the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), the science fiction game EVE Online developed and published by CCP ...
The Monster Waves at Nazare, Portugal
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 11, 2015
The pretty seaside town and resort of Nazaré on the west coast of Portugal remains crowded throughout the summer with tourists who flock to ...
The Geographic Center of Asia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 11, 2015
If you were to take the entire continent of Asia and balance it on a pinhead, you would have to put the pin at a place called Kyzyl in Russi...
The Mei-ling Palace of Nanjing Looks Like a Giant Necklace
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2015
The Mei-ling Palace, located on the top of Xiaohong Hill in eastern Nanjing city, was once the home of China’s former president Chiang Kai-s...
Woodhenge: Stonehenge’s Sister Circle Made of Wood
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2015
Less than 2 miles north-east of the famous Stonehenge stood another Neolithic-age monument but made of timber. Although the wood is long gon...
Frank Slide: Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide Now a Tourist Attraction
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2015
In the early morning hours of April 29, 1903, a massive section of limestone broke away from the summit of Turtle Mountain in Alberta, Canad...
Elephant Foot Glacier
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2015
The Elephant Foot Glacier in northeastern Greenland, looks like a bowl of batter that has been poured over a pan. The sheer pressure of the ...
The Secret ‘Plot E’ of Oise-Aisne American Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2015
The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, in Picardy in northern France, contains the graves of just over 6,000 American soldiers who d...
