Sassi di Matera: The Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cave City
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2016
In the Basilicata region, in Southern Italy, is an ancient city named Matera known for its cave houses called “sassi”. The sassi are carved ...
Swords in The Rock, Norway
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2016
On a small hill on the edge of Hafrsfjord, about 6 km from the city center of Stavanger, Norway, stands three enormous bronze swords as monu...
Actun Tunichil Muknal: The Cave of The Crystal Maiden
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2016
The Maya believed that caves, especially those that extend for several kilometers underground, are entries to the underworld or Xibalba, the...
The Luxurious Mausoleums of Manila Chinese Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2016
Walk into the Manila Chinese Cemetery in the Filipino capital and you might think you are visiting a residential suburb. There is a two-way ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 15
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2016
The Grass Roofs of Norway Norwegians have their own way of going green, and quite literally. For hundreds of years houses in Norway have be...
The Amazing Restoration of Samarkand’s Historic Buildings
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2016
While a certain extremist group has been systemically destroying precious ancient monuments in the middle-east, one Islamic city in Central ...
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...
