The Historic Palace of The Fon of Bafut And His One Hundred Wives
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2015
The town of Bafut in Northwest Cameroon is one of only two regions in Cameroon still ruled by a chief with traditional power structures. Th...
5 Unusual Circular Buildings
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2015
Inspired by the symbolism of the circle and the sphere, architects have been designing circular buildings since the ancient times. Round tow...
The Black Eggs of Owakudani
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2015
Owakudani or “the Great Boiling Valley” in Hakone, Japan, is hardly the ideal tourist spot. It’s a large volcanic caldera formed around 3,00...
The Booming Ice Chasm of The Canadian Rockies
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2015
Booming Ice Chasm is a stunning ice cave in the Crowsnest Pass area of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta. The cave is so called for it's i...
NASA's Abandoned Launch Sites
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2015
The Mercury, Gemini and the Apollo Missions of the late 1950s and 60s still remain one of NASA’s greatest achievements — one that enabled hu...
Hole N' The Rock, Utah
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2015
Some dads build their kids tree houses, but in the treeless desert of southeastern Utah, Albert Christensen’s only possible alternative was ...
What Happens When The Grid Meets The Curvature of The Earth?
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2015
In the late 18th century, when American land surveyors were laying down the grid system —the network of perpendicularly intersecting streets...
The Mysterious Stone Columns Along Crowley Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2015
After California’s Crowley Lake reservoir on the upper Owens River in southern Mono County was completed in 1941, strange column-like format...
The Smoked Corpses of Aseki, Papua New Guinea
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2015
We tend to associate mummies with ancient Egypt, but a lot of culture around the world practiced mummification. The Anga tribe of the Aseki ...
Wuzhen: The Ancient Chinese Water Town
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2015
Located in the center of the six ancient water towns south of Yangtze River, in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, Wuzhen is the most beautif...
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...
