Salekhard–Igarka Railway: Stalin’s Railroad of Death
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2016
On the outskirts of Salekhard, the capital of the Yamal Nenets Autonomous Region, Russia, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, lies the disused...
Big Stone River, Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2016
The Big Stone River is a chaotic jumble of huge boulders flowing down the slope of the Taganay mountains in the Southern Urals, on the terri...
The Selaron Steps of Rio de Janeiro
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2016
Rio de Janeiro’s most famous street is actually a flight of stairs connecting the streets of Joaquim Silva and Pinto Martins in the Lapa and...
Whale Bone Alley of Yttygran Island
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2016
Along the northern shore of the remote Siberian island of Yttygran, in the Bering Sea, is an area known as the “Whale Bone Alley”. Forty yea...
Wakakusa Yamayaki: The Mountain Burning Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 25, 2016
Fireworks are a great way to celebrate any occasion, but like NuanQuan’s molten iron throwing festival , the Japanese city of Nara ( the cit...
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 25, 2016
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village is tucked away in a small residential neighborhood of Simi Valley, California. In an area one-third of...
The Valley of Balls, Kazakhstan
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 23, 2016
The valley of balls or Torysh, as it’s called in Kazakh, is located at the Northern tip of the Western Karatau, close to the town of Shetpe ...
The Smoking Hot Springs of Beppu, Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 23, 2016
The Japanese island of Kyushu is a hotbed of geothermal activity, thanks to the country’s most active volcano Mt Aso, that the island is hom...
Colossi of Memnon: The ‘Singing’ Statues
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2016
The Colossi of Memnon, also known as Colossus of Memnon, are two massive stone statues on the west bank of the River Nile, opposite the mode...
Lava Lakes: The Exposed Guts of Volcanoes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2016
Most volcanoes have a deep inner chamber of molten rocks, but this chamber is typically capped shut by cooled, solid rock. But sometimes the...
The Mysterious Mima Mounds
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2016
In the prairies near Olympia, in Washington, in northwestern United States, thousands upon thousands of grass-covered humps bulges out of th...
The Indestructible Bust of Pablo Iglesias
Anonymous
Jun 20, 2016
A little off the tourist trail in the northern barrio of Madrid lies a reproduction of a bust of Pablo Iglesias Posse. Founder of both the S...
Famous Porcelain Tower of Nanjing Rebuilt
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2016
The lost Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, ranked one of the seven wonders of the medieval world, is back in Nanjing more than a hundred and fifty...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 20
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2016
A collection of interesting articles from Amusing Planet’s archives. How The Military Hid The Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant During World...
Frying Pan Lake of New Zealand
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2016
The Frying Pan Lake in Waimangu, New Zealand, is one of the largest hot pools in the world. Its acidic waters stay at about 50–60° centigrad...
The Boab Prison Trees of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2016
The Australian baobab tree, a relative to the baobabs of Madagascar and mainland Africa, is a large tree with a big swollen trunk that resem...
Welwitschia Mirablilis: An Extraordinary Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2016
This tangled mess of tattered and withered leaves has been called one of the ugliest plants in the world. While it certainly isn’t pretty, i...
The Schwerbelastungskörper And Hitler’s Grand Plans For Berlin
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2016
On the corner of Dudenstrasse and General-Pape-Strasse in Berlin, between the S-Bahn tracks and a housing estate, stands a massive cylindric...
The Colored Pebbles of Lake McDonald
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2016
The Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana, on the border with Canada, is home to more than 700 lakes, although only 131 of thes...
The Bridge of Sighs
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2016
The Bridge of Sighs, also known as the Ponte dei Sospiri, is one of the most famous bridges of Venice. This curved, fully enclosed bridge is...
