Shark Ray Alley, Belize
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2016
Shark Ray Alley is a shallow sandy-bottomed area in Hol Chan Marine Reserve, off the coast of Belize, so named because of the abundance of n...
Blackhouses of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2016
Hundreds of years ago the highlands of Scotland and Ireland were dotted with a type of dwelling called blackhouses. These were long narrow b...
Palace of The Parliament: The Building of Superlatives
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2016
At the historical center of Romania’s capital city Bucharest, stands the colossal Palace of the Parliament, one of the most expensive and ex...
Red Lotus Lake, Kumphawapi, Thailand
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2016
There is lake called Nong Han Kumphawapi in northeast Thailand, north of the town of Kumphawapi, and about 50 kilometers away from Udon Than...
Mooning of The Amtrak
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2016
For the last 36 years, the city of Laguna Niguel, California, has been host to a bizarre tradition called the Mooning of the Amtrak. Every y...
Gangi, The Town That Gave Itself Away
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
The Italian town of Gangi, built atop a small bump-like hill in an wooded valley in central Sicily, about 80 kilometers southeast of Palermo...
Montreal Biosphere
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
The Montreal Biosphere, located on Saint Helen's Island in Montreal, Canada, is a museum dedicated to the environment. It was designed a...
Lenin's Hut in Razliv
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2016
In July 1917, after an armed demonstration by the Bolsheviks in St. Petersburg against the Russian Provincial Government turned violent, the...
Clingstone: The House on The Rock
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2016
Perched on top of a small, rocky island in Narragansett Bay, near Jamestown, Rhode Island, the United States, is a three-story, cedar shingl...
Secret Rooms Inside Abandoned Sewers
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2016
Italian street artist Biancoshock has just finished installing a couple of secret, miniature rooms, hidden under manhole covers, inside an a...
The Walls of Avila
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2016
The ancient city of Avila is located in central Spain, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, about 100 km to the west of Madrid. ...
Moche Sex Pots
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2016
The Moche people lived in northern Peru near present-day Moche and Trujillo, between 1,900 to 1,200 years ago, long before the Inca Empire. ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 14
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Beautiful Adhesive Tape Art ...
The Rabbit Proof Fence of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2016
Stretching from north to south across Western Australia, dividing the entire continent into two unequal parts, is a flimsy barbed-wire fence...
National Poo Museum Opens in Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2016
No, its not an April Fool’s joke. Britain has indeed opened a museum dedicated to poo. The museum, which is surprisingly not the first of it...
Veijo Rönkkönen’s Sculpture Park
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2016
In the Finnish town of Parikalla, close to the Russian border, is a remarkable sculpture park consisting of some five hundred concrete figur...
The Incredible Basilica Cistern of Istanbul
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2016
When Istanbul was Constantinople during the period of the great Roman, and later Byzantium Empire, hundreds of subterranean cisterns were bu...
The Bridges of Prague
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2016
Located on the banks of Vltava River, the historic city of Prague and the capital of Czech Republic is said to be one of Europe’s best prese...
The Secret of Langham Dome Trainer
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2016
About 24 km northwest of the city of Norwich, in north Norfolk, England, lies the abandoned remains of RAF Langham, a former Royal Air Force...
Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2016
The Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum in Graz, Austria, is a gigantic blob-shaped building with a dozen or so tube like nozzles, acting as windows, ...
