Unseen Pictures of The Vietnam War From The Other Side
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2016
What the western world remembers about the Vietnam War is defined by a handful of iconic photographs taken through the lenses of American an...
The Coconut Palace, Philippines
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2016
The official residence and workplace of the Vice President of the Philippines, in Manila, is a curious attraction. The building is called Co...
8 Sound Sculptures That Lets Nature Be The Musician
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2016
While most sculptures are intended to be viewed, there are some that strive to stimulate our other senses as well. These eight large scale s...
Inca Tern: The Bird With A Magnificent Moustache
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2016
The Bougainville moustached kingfisher might be the one with word “moustache” in its name but it’s the dark grey plumaged Inca tern of the f...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 8
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Legoland Deutschland Theme P...
155-Year-Old Mouse Trap in a Museum Claims Another Victim
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2016
The University of Reading's Museum of English Rural Life has caught a mouse in a trap, but not on one laid by the museum staff to catch ...
The Bombed-Out St Dunstan in The East Church of London
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2016
One of London’s best kept secret is a small derelict church, or what remains of it, half way between London Bridge and the Tower of London, ...
Gomantong Caves: The Caves of Horrors
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2016
Deep in the steamy jungles of Borneo, in Malaysia, is a massive crack in the limestone outcrop that leads to an intricate system of caves. E...
This Ordinary House Has an Outrageous Interior
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2016
This ordinary looking middle-class house in Newport, Oregon, with creamy white siding, yellowed brick, and a two-car garage blends perfectly...
Pholisma Sonorae: A Strange Looking Flowering Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2016
Pholisma sonorae, commonly known as sand food, is one of the most bizarre wildflowers of North America. Growing out of sand dunes, the flowe...
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...
