The Great Ziggurat of Ur
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
In the middle of the third millennium BCE, the ancient Mesopotamians began building huge stepped platforms out of fired bricks called ziggur...
Caves of Nottingham
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2016
The city of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England, is spread over a soft sandstone ridge which forms low hills to the north of the River Tr...
Chattahoochee Plantation, The 10-Foot Wide City
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2016
In the early 1950s, Atlanta, the most populous city in the U.S. Georgia, was growing at an incredible rate spilling its borders into the su...
Charyn Canyon: The Grand Canyon of Central Asia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2016
Tucked away between the Ketmen and Ulken-Bogut mountain ridges in the southeast corner of Kazakhstan, close to the border with China, lies t...
Bathing Machines of The 19th Century
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2016
Back in the 18th and 19th century, the ladies just couldn't strip to their swimwear and run towards the waves on the beach. There are ce...
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...
