The Mysterious Caves of Mustang, Nepal
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2016
The Kingdom of Mustang, bordering the Tibetan plateau, is one of the most remote and isolated region of Nepalese Himalaya. Once an independe...
Martini Junction: A Miniature Railway Hidden in The Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2016
In the small but densely wooded Needham town forest, outside Boston, lies a secret attraction — a miniature model railway consisting of 120 ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 11
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 6, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. The Most Expensive Coffee in...
The Por-Bazhyn Fortress
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2016
In a small island in the center of a remote Lake Tere-Khol, high in the mountains of southern Siberia, close to the Mongolian border, lies t...
The Most Visually Impressive Impact Craters on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 3, 2016
It is estimated that the earth’s surface is struck by about 500 meteorites a year, but only about 5 or 6 are large enough to be detected by ...
Tarkhan Dress: The World’s Oldest Woven Garment
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2016
This tattered V-neck linen shirt, currently on display in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, is the world’s oldest woven garment...
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...
