Lake Magadi, Kenya’s Pink Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2016
Lake Magadi is located in the Great Rift Valley, in southern Kenya, in a vast depression whose bed is made almost entirely of solid or semis...
The Asbestos Ghost Town of Wittenoom
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2016
One of the most beautiful areas in the Pilbara region of Western Australia is also one of the most dangerous. About eighty years ago, blue a...
The Cheese Caves of Roquefort
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 29, 2016
The pungent odor and tangy taste of the Roquefort cheese, with its distinctive spots and veins of blue-green mold throughout, is not for eve...
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 29, 2016
The Shushtar Hydraulic System in the island city of Shushtar is a complex irrigation system that dates back to the time of the Achaemenid ki...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 10
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Giant Crystal Cave in the Me...
The Stick Chart Navigation of Marshall Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 27, 2016
The Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean was settled by the Micronesians more than three thousand years ago. These early settlers had to ma...
Vertical Earth Kilometer
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2016
In Friedrichsplatz Park in Kassel, Germany, there is a public art installation of epic scale, but you can’t see it. The only visible sign of...
The Stunning Beauty of Braided Rivers
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2016
Most rivers flow in one broad channel of water, but some rivers split into lots of small channels that continually split and join each other...
The Norway Spiral
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 25, 2016
On December 9, 2009, a curious spiral of blue and white light appeared in the night sky over northern Norway and Sweden, freaking out a sect...
Highbury Square: A 93-Year-Old Football Stadium Converted Into Apartments
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 25, 2016
For any die-hard Gooner with half-a-million pound to spare, what’s better than buying a property at the old Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, Nor...
The Urban Villages of China
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 25, 2016
Over the last four decades, China has experienced rapid urban growth and massive rural to urban migration. Between the late seventies to the...
Collaborating With Insects to Make Art
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2016
Some of the most hated creatures on earth are bugs. These small scurry things invade our home and private spaces, spoil our food, get into o...
The Old Mill of Vernon
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2016
The Old Mill (Le Vieux-Moulin, in French) in the commune of Vernon, in northern France, is a 16th century flour mill constructed on top of a...
The Pigment Library at Harvard
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2016
A piece of rare lapis lazuli stone from quarries in Afghanistan, secretions from on ocean-dwelling snail Bolinus brandaris , dried bodies of...
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...
