The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2015
The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA, looks like a monumental piece of modern art. A great wh...
The Great Stalacpipe Organ Creates Music From Cave Stalactites
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2015
The world’s strangest musical instrument is located in one of the most unlikely places in the world — deep underground, inside Virginia'...
The Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2015
The city of Rio de Janeiro has opened a new “experimental museum” called the Museum of Tomorrow devoted to exploring the possibilities of a ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 1
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2015
A collection of interesting and noteworthy articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year old archives. ...
Yipao: Colombia’s Bizarre Jeep Parade
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2015
The Jeep is Colombia’s most iconic mode of transportation, especially in the coffee growing regions where farming is an integral part of lif...
This is Egypt’s Only Waterfalls, And its Man-Made
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2015
The valley of Wadi El-Rayan, 65 km southwest of Fayoum city, in Egypt, is home to two large artificial lakes created to divert excess agricu...
The Rooftop Racetrack of Fiat’s Lingotto Factory
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2015
The Lingotto building in Turin, Italy, is a massive half-kilometer long reinforced concrete structure, five stories tall, that once housed t...
The Jail Tree of Wickenburg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2015
In the town of Wickenburg in Arizona, there is a 200-year old mesquite tree that according to legend, served as the town’s “hoosegow” betwee...
Do Walking Palm Trees Really Walk?
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2015
A recently published article on BBC’s website mentions a certain palm tree that has allegedly developed a rather unique ability unbecoming ...
Places Where Three Time Zones Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2015
When Italian mathematician Quirico Filopanti first sounded the idea of time zones in his book Miranda! published in 1858, he proposed that ...
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...
