The Alien Landscape of Bisti Badlands
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2016
The Bisti Badlands, also called Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, is a vast rolling landscape of phantasmagoric formations of earth and stone loca...
African Renaissance Monument
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2016
Standing atop a 100-meter high hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean outside Dakar, in Senegal, stands the gigantic Monument to the African Re...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 13
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Anastassia Elias’s Tiny Worl...
The Ghost Town of Bodie
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2016
One of America’s most beautiful abandoned town, now a protected State Historic Park, is Bodie, located east of the Sierra Nevada mountain ra...
Icelandic Phallological Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2016
The Icelandic Phallological Museum in ReykjavÃk is the world’s only museum devoted to the male genitalia. It contains over 280 specimens rep...
The Prehistoric Rock Art of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2016
Tassili n'Ajjer is a vast desert plateau in southern Algeria, stretching from the borders with Niger and Libya to the east, to as far as...
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 24, 2016
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz is one of Berlin's most famous landmarks. The church was originally built between 189...
Abandoned Victorian Public Toilets of London
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 24, 2016
Of all the wonderful things to photograph in London, Agnese Sanvito chose one that most Londoners avoid, unless they have to —public toilet...
The Backroom Collection of The National Museum of Natural History
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 23, 2016
The National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., United States, the largest of all museums of the Smithsonian Institution, is hom...
The Nearly Invisible Wires That Enclose Nearly All Major Cities of The World
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 23, 2016
Unbeknownst to many, there are translucent fishing lines that wrap around hundreds of cities around the world. Strung high above the heads o...
Acoma Pueblo: The Oldest Continuously Inhabited Settlement in The United States
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2016
Acoma Pueblo, in Valencia County in West Central New Mexico, is believed to have been established in the 12th century or even earlier, makin...
Taq Kasra: The Archway of Ctesiphon
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2016
The ancient city of Ctesiphon, on the banks of Tigris, is located about 35 km southeast of modern Baghdad. Established in the late 120s BC, ...
The Fabulous Fabergé Eggs of The Russian Imperial Family
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2016
Easter is the most important celebration for Russian orthodox Christians, just like Christmas is in the West. Devoted Christians bring hand-...
The Stave Churches of Norway
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2016
During the Middle Ages, a new type of wooden construction technique became popular all over northwestern Europe, especially in Norway, where...
The Mysterious Shell Grotto in Margate
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 18, 2016
In the old seaside town of Margate, in the English county of Kent, not too far from the town’s harbor, is a mysterious underground cavern wi...
The Plague Island of Poveglia
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 18, 2016
The island of Poveglia is one of the many small islands located in the Venetian Lagoon between Venice and Lido. It is believed to be haunted...
Japan’s Largest Cemetery Okunoin With 200,000 Buried Monks
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 18, 2016
In a peaceful wooded area of Wakayama Prefecture, south of Kyoto and Osaka, lies the ancient village of Koyasan or Mount Koya, known as the ...
The Crater Riddled Cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2016
A few kilometers east of the small fishing port of Grandcamp, the Normandy coastline in northern France, juts into the sea forming a sheer p...
Butcher’s Broom: Can Fruits Grow on Leaves?
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2016
Butcher’s Broom, or Ruscus aculeatus , is a low-growing perennial shrub with tough, erect, stems and very rigid leaves that terminate in a s...
The Rio de Janeiro Cathedral
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2016
One of Rio de Janeiro’s most visible attraction is the Rio de Janeiro Cathedral or the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro. This cone s...
