Dig for Crystals at Oklahoma's Great Salt Plains
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2015
The Great Salt Plains in Alfalfa County, in northwestern Oklahoma, the United States, is the only place in the world where hourglass-shaped ...
The World’s Largest Pipe Organ at Boardwalk Hall
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2015
The historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the city’s most important convention center. All big events in Atlantic City ar...
20 Most Beautiful Observation Towers
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2015
Observation Tower in Jurmala, Latvia “The Observation Tower in Jurmala” is located within the Dzintaru Park in Jurmala, Latvia. The 38-mete...
The Accidental Bombing of Boise City
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2015
The United States Army has its fair share of embarrassments, like losing nuclear bombs and accidentally dropping one on the backyard of a So...
Malham Cove Waterfall Brought Back to Life After 200 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2015
The natural limestone amphitheater Malham Cove in the village of Malham, North Yorkshire, England, was carved by a waterfall carrying meltwa...
The Crack in The Ground, Lake County
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2015
The bluntly named “Crack in the Ground” is a volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep in Lake County, central Oregon, Uni...
The World’s Oldest Bird is 64, And She Just Laid an Egg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2015
Meet Wisdom, the world’s oldest known banded bird in the wild. She is 64 years old. Wisdom is a Laysan albatross, a large seabird that range...
East Meets West in China’s New Hybrid Building
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
In the past few years, China’s replica business has gone beyond fake Puma shoes and mobile phones. The country is now making headlines with ...
The Floating Forest of Homebush Bay, Sydney
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
The affluent suburb of Homebush Bay on the south bank of the Parramatta River, in the inner west of Sydney, was once the dumping ground for ...
The Sculpted Hedges of Schönbrunn Palace
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
The Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, is one of Europe’s most impressive Baroque palaces and an important architectural, cultural and hi...
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...
