The Marina Towers Observatory in Swansea is Shaped Like a Spaceship
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2015
This peculiar shaped building resembling a spaceship on its launch pad is located at the end of the promenade in the Maritime Quarter of Swa...
The Ginkgo Avenue in Tokyo
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2015
Ginkgo biloba, also known as the maidenhair tree, is widely cultivated in many urban areas around the world as an ornamental and shade tree....
The Amphitheatre of El Jem
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2015
The Amphitheatre of El Jem is located in the town of El Jem or Thysdrus, as it was known in Roman time, in central Tunisia. Modeled after th...
The Neskowin Ghost Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2015
In the small coastal town of Neskowin in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States, somewhere between Lincoln City and Pacific City, are the r...
The Book Mountain in Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2015
Close to the Port of Rotterdam, in Spijkenisse, is a public library that manifests itself as a mountain of books on the town’s market square...
Nature’s Sand Artist: Sand Bubbler Crab
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 2, 2015
In sandy beaches of certain tropical regions in the Indo-Pacific live a tiny crab, about a centimeter across, called the “sand bubbler crab”...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2015
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is located in New York City at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island, in the East River be...
Kastrup Sea Bath: An Outdoor Swimming Pool in The Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2015
Kastrup Sea Bath is part of the Kastrup Strandpark waterfront park on the east coast of Amager in Copenhagen, Denmark. It’s an outdoor swimm...
The Pillow Lavas of Oman Ophiolite
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2015
You don’t have to be a geologist to appreciate these marvelous rock formation known as Pillow Lavas found in the Hajar Mountains of Oman. Pi...
Hukou Waterfall: The Yellow Waterfall
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 30, 2015
The Hukou Waterfall on China’s Yellow River has very modest dimensions. It’s just 30 meters wide, increasing to 50 meters during flood seaso...
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...
