The Hellish Gold Mines of Serra Pelada
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2016
In the early 1980s, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado travelled to the mines of Serra Pelada, some 430 kilometers south of the mouth ...
Europe's First Underwater Sculpture Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2016
The island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain, has set up of the first set of sculptures in what will be the first completely underwa...
The Mysterious Marree Man of South Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2016
In June 1998 a local pilot flying over the remote South Australian desert discovered an enormous drawing of an Aboriginal man hunting with a...
Satellite Images or Microscopic Photos?
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2016
While going through my daily reading list, one particular image posted on the Tumblr blog Daily Overview, which publishes high quality satel...
The Belogradchik Fortress, Bulgaria
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2016
Located on the north slopes of the Balkan Mountains, close to the northwestern Bulgarian town of Belogradchik, is the Belogradchik Fortress,...
Dominic Wilcox Turns Kids’ Crazy Inventions Into Real Products
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2016
We all have brilliant ideas for products that could make certain chores easier to perform if only they could be turned into reality. With th...
The Carved Stone Balls of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2016
For the last 150 years archeologists have been digging up a peculiar class of objects in north-east Scotland. They are small carved stone ba...
The Sinking of Steamboat Arabia And its Discovery in a Cornfield
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2016
On September 1856, a steamboat named Arabia left Kansas up the Missouri river on a routine trip, carrying two hundred tons of supplies for s...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 7
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year-old archives. EIZO Pin-up Cal...
The Beautiful Floor Mosaics of Venice
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2016
Sightseeing around Venice generally involves sticking your nose up in the air marveling at historic buildings and sprawling vistas, but that...
‘Log House’ Like Cocoon of The Bagworm Moth
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2016
The bagworm moth (Psychidae) of the family Lepidoptera might be a pest for Botanists, but for Lepidopterists they are one of the rare archit...
Australian Farmer Fights Soil Erosion With Land Art
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2016
After a recent bushfire consumed all vegetation on his land, a South Australian farmer Brian Fischer decided to etch a gigantic geometric pa...
The Windmills of Lasithi Plateau
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2016
The Lasithi Plateau in eastern Crete, Greece, is situated 800 meters above sea level. Despite the high altitude, the water table here is ext...
Rio Celeste, The Blue River
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2016
Winding through the verdant rainforest of Tenorio Volcano National Park of Costa Rica, is a bright blue river called Rio Celeste. The river ...
Syrian Refugees Build Miniature Replicas of Country’s Destroyed Monuments
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2016
As war rages on in Syria, it’s only the people that refugee camps could provide protection to. The homes, the cities, the culture and the hi...
Neft Dasları: A City Built On Oil Platforms
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2016
Far out into the Caspian Sea, a hundred kilometers away from the Azerbaijani capital Baku, lies one of the most incredible settlements in th...
Villagers Scrap a Living Out of Abandoned Diamond Mine in Brazil
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2016
Deep in the heart of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, along the banks of the Rio Jequitinhonha, rural miners explore the massive open pi...
The Circular Laguna Garzon Bridge in Uruguay
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 26, 2016
When building bridges, engineers and architects don’t always look for the shortest possible crossing. The new ring-shaped bridge across Lagu...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 6
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year-old archives. Cool Movie Illu...
Would You Live in a Luxury Resort That Was Once a Concentration Camp?
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2016
That’s the question angered family members of those who were imprisoned at a sea fort in the Adriatic Sea is asking, when the government app...
