The Boiling River of Mayantuyacu, Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2016
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, in Mayantuyacu, Peru, flows a river so hot its water actually boils. The locals call it “Shanay-timpishka” wh...
The Forgotten Desert Libraries of Chinguetti
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2016
The ancient desert town of Chinguetti, in Mauritania, on the western edge of the Sahara, has changed little since it was founded more than t...
Diana Beltran Herrera’s Realistic Paper Birds
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2016
These stunning paper birds were created by Columbian artist Diana Beltran Herrera using nothing but a few colored papers, glue and a pair o...
Fantasy Canyon, Utah
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2016
Fantasy Canyon is located about 25 miles south of Vernal, in northeastern Utah, United States. This small area, which is not really a canyon...
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, And its Claim to ‘The World’s Longest Bridge’ Title
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 18, 2016
If you look at the list of the longest bridges in the world , you will notice that the top positions are dominated by Asian countries, espec...
Brent Christensen’s Amazing Ice Castles
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 18, 2016
Brent Christensen is the founder of Ice Castles , an Utah-based company specializing in creating lofty ice castles by carefully orchestratin...
Artist Creates Large GPS Doodles by Cycling Around City
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2016
When Canadian artist and fitness junkie Stephen Lund began tracking his cycling routes using GPS, he saw a potential to be creative with the...
The Staircase of The King of Aragon
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2016
The Staircase of The King of Aragon (Escalier du Roi d’Aragon, in French) is a stony staircase carved into the vertical side of a limestone ...
The Strange Rocks of Vottovaara
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2016
Twenty km south-east of the village of Sukkajärvi, in the west Karelia hills of the Karelia region of Russia, is the mountain of Vottovaara....
The Abandoned Giant Busts of Presidents Park
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2016
The iconic heads of four US Presidents sculpted on the granite face of Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills in South Dakota, has marveled mill...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 9
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Close Up Pictures Reveal The...
This Boulder Has a Hidden Wi-Fi Router That Needs Fire to Turn On
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 13, 2016
On a small clearing in the woods, on the grounds of the Springhornhof , a museum of site-specific outdoor sculpture, in Neuenkirchen, German...
The Wolf’s Lair, Poland
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2016
Deep in the Masurian woods about 8 km from the small East Prussian town of Rastenburg, lies the ruins of Adolf Hitler’s most secretive bunke...
Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2016
Every year on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, chaotic scenes erupt in the streets and streams of Ashbourne in Derbyshire, England, as a mo...
Want to Spend a Night in Van Gogh's Bedroom?
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2016
The Art Institute of Chicago has created a life-size replica of Van Gogh’s famous bedroom at his home in Arles, France, which he had immorta...
El Callejon del Beso, The Alley of The Kiss
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2016
The charming city of Guanajuato in central Mexico has many narrow streets and alleys, but El Callejon del Beso is by far one of the narrowes...
The Spectacular Waves of Lake Erie
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2016
It’s hard to believe these pictures of gigantic, thrashing waves were not captured in the ocean but on the shallowest of the Great Lakes of ...
The Coloured Canyon of Egypt
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2016
The Coloured Canyon is a narrow slot canyon located near the town of Nuweiba, on Sinai peninsula, Egypt, so named because of its amazing spe...
The Stopping of Niagara Falls in 1969
Anonymous
Feb 9, 2016
Endeavor to change the course of history, has always been a primary motive of human civilization, through several centuries. It has been obs...
Belogorsky Monastery of St. Nicholas
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2016
The Belogorsky Monastery of St. Nicholas, also known as the Belaya Gora Monastery, is located on top of a hill in Belaya Gora or the White M...
