The Battle For The Largest Bonfire in The Netherlands
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2016
In the last few days of the year leading up to the midnight of December 31, two Dutch teams from the neighboring districts of Scheveningen (...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 3
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2016
A collection of interesting and noteworthy articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year old archives. ...
Germany Opens Bicycle Superhighway
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 2, 2016
Intercity travelling by bicycles is about to become a reality in Europe, as Germany opens the first ever superhighway for bicycle-only traff...
Northumberlandia: The Lady of the North
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 2, 2016
In the former coal mining town of Cramlington, Northumberland, North East England, is a gigantic piece of land art in the shape of reclining...
Skating on The Rideau Canal
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 2, 2016
New Year has arrived and gone. The holidays is almost over and many people have already returned back to their dreaded work and life in gene...
The Ice of Lake Baikal
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2015
Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, remains covered with ice for almost five months a year. Every winter as the temperature plummets below zero...
Kobe Luminarie Light Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2015
One of the best display of lights in entire Japan takes place in Kobe during Kobe Luminarie. The event is held every year from early to mid-...
A Daredevil Aerial Walkway Over a Tea Park in China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2015
What’s more dangerous than a glass-bottom bridge ? A bridge without a bottom, of course! Such an aerial walkway buttressed by only ropes ha...
The Hall of Mosses
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2015
The Hall of Mosses is a short hiking trail located in the Hoh Rain Forest on the Olympic Peninsula in the west of Washington state, USA. The...
The Painted Cliffs of Maria Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2015
The beautifully patterned sandstone rocks of Painted Cliffs are one of Maria island’s most popular attraction. The mountainous island locate...
Yanweizhou Wetland Park, China
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2015
Located in the heart of Jinhua City in central Zhejiang province in eastern China, is a natural riparian wetland where the Wuyi River and Yi...
Iceland’s Most Beautiful Waterfalls
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2015
Iceland is often called the land of waterfalls. Indeed, there are literally hundreds of these natural beauties all over the country. From th...
The Bath Tubs of Mystic Hot Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2015
At Mystic Hot Springs in Monroe, Utah, hot water comes out from deep underground at a scalding 75 degrees degrees Celsius at a rate of about...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 2
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 27, 2015
A collection of interesting and noteworthy articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year old archives. ...
The Christmas Tree Worm
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 24, 2015
Scientifically that are called spirobranchus giganteus , but they are better known by their colloquial name — Christmas tree worm. The worm ...
The Diamond Building at The University of Sheffield
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2015
The University of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England, has opened a new landmark building called “the Diamond”. It is named after its dist...
Devil’s Slide, Utah
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2015
The Devil’s Slide in Utah, the United States, looks like a giant playground slide fit only for the Devil. The Slide consist of two parallel ...
Billy Tripp's Mindfield
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2015
In the town of Brownsville in western Tennessee, is a baffling architectural wonder called “The Mindfield” created by local artist Billy Tri...
Modernist Sand Castles by Calvin Seibert
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2015
New York based sand artist Calvin Seibert has been sculpting sand for the last 30 years, but his love affair started much much earlier when ...
The Latte Stones of Mariana Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2015
Throughout most of the Mariana Islands, a crescent-shaped archipelago in the western North Pacific Ocean near Japan, a peculiar kind of mega...
