Sam Kee Building: World's Narrowest Office Building
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 30, 2015
The Sam Kee Building, located on 8 West Pender Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as...
The Scale Lane Bridge in Hull
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 30, 2015
The Scale Lane Bridge is an innovative pedestrian swing bridge located in the city of Hull, England, that offers pedestrians the unique expe...
Upside Down Houses Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2015
A clichéd yet popular tourist attraction that never fails to amuse is an upside down house, with a faithfully reproduced exterior and interi...
Shigir Idol: The World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2015
In the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is a 9 feet tall wooden statue enclosed in a glass box. Called the...
Try Galileo’s Gravity Experiments From The Leaning Tower of Gingin
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2015
In the late 16th century, famed Italian scientist Galileo Galilei supposedly dropped balls of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pi...
The Multi-Layered Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2015
In the past when a cemetery ran out of space and there were no more land to expand, a new cemetery was created by layering more soil over th...
The Realmonte Salt Mine in Sicily
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2015
In the southern cost of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, lies the town of Realmonte where there is a huge underground sa...
The UFO Watchtower in Hooper, Colorado
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2015
Smack in the middle of the San Luis Valley, in Hooper, Colorado, is a ten foot tall platform called UFO Watchtower atop which one can watch ...
The Bahrain World Trade Center Has Built-In Wind Turbines
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2015
Since the last few years an increasing number of green buildings are being constructed in the developed and developing world, focusing on en...
The 13th Century Kelburn Castle Covered With Colorful Graffiti
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2015
Who said castles need to be somber colored stone buildings with grey and brown exterior? Ask the Earl of Glasgow, who had his transformed in...
The Atomic Bomb Crater in Mars Bluff, South Carolina
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2015
Not too many families had a nuclear bomb dropped in their backyard, and survived. The Gregg family of Mars Bluff, South Carolina, was one of...
The Center of The Universe in Tulsa
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2015
Named after the city’s burgeoning music festival, the Center of the Universe in downtown Tulsa, in the US state of Oklahoma, is a strange at...
Bolton Strid: A Stream That Swallows People
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2015
Between Barden Tower and Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, England, lies one of nature's most dangerous booby traps. It’s a small innocuous-loo...
Fordlandia: A Modern Industrial Ruin in The Heart of Amazon
Anonymous
Nov 23, 2015
This photograph of men standing in shirtless bodies, surrounded by the long leaves of the jungle fauna, and a thatched hut behind, was captu...
The Oak in a Dovecote, Béceleuf
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 23, 2015
In the old days, the possession of a dovecote was a symbol of status and power, and only the nobles had the privilege of owning one. Breedin...
Casa Terracota: The Clay House
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 23, 2015
This misshapen adobe colored house, located in Villa de Leyva, a colonial mountain village 95 miles north of Bogota, Colombia, was built by ...
The World Map at Lake Klejtrup
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2015
The World Map on the banks of the Lake Klejtrup in Denmark is a 4,000-square-meter walkable map of the world built out of soil, stones and g...
The Beached German Submarine U-118 at Hastings, England
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2015
In the morning of 15 April, 1919, the townsfolk of Hastings, in Sussex, on the south coast of England, woke up to an astonishing sight. A hu...
The Flower Tower of Paris
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 20, 2015
In Paris's 17th arrondissement is a 10-story apartment building that’s so completely covered with potted plants that the building itself...
The Palace of Peace and Reconciliation
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 20, 2015
In September 2003, Kazakhstan the largest of the former Soviet Republics hosted the inaugural Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional R...
