Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2016
The Soviet Union’s nuclear program started soon after the end of the Second World War. Tests were conducted in many remote regions such as t...
Leviathan of Parsonstown
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2016
In 1845, William Parsons, an Irish nobleman and the third Earl of Rosse, constructed a large telescope with an enormous 6-feet wide mirror o...
Malaya Zemlya Memorial
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2016
The Malaya Zemlya Memorial in Novorossiysk, Russia, pays homage to a little known but important battle of the Second World War, that eventua...
Sarajevo Roses: Mortar Scars Filled With Red Resin as War Memories
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2016
During the Bosnian War of 1992-95, the city of Sarajevo was under siege by the Serbian army for a period of 44 months —the longest siege of ...
Sarai Batu: The Reconstructed 13th Century Capital City of The Golden Horde
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2016
The ancient city of Sarai Batu was located on the lower stretch of the Volga River, about 120 km north of the modern city of Astrakhan in pr...
Fort Alexander, Saint Petersburg
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2016
The city of Saint Petersburg at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, was once protected by a string of forts across the gulf. ...
Spaso-Kamenny Monastery
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2016
The Spaso-Kamenny Monastery is located in a small island in the middle of Kubensky Lake, in Ust-Kubinsky District of Vologda Oblast, about 5...
Abandoned Kennicott Copper Mining Town, Alaska
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2016
The old mining town of Kennicott in the US state of Alaska is located on the south slopes of Wrangell mountain close to the Kennicott Glacie...
Hassan Tower, Morocco
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
In the late 12th century, Sultan Yaqub al-Mansur, the third Caliph of Almohad Dynasty that ruled over West Africa and Iberia, ordered the co...
Sayhuite Stone: An Ancient Hydraulic Scale Model of The Inca Empire?
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
About 47 kilometers east of the city Abancay, in southern-central Peru, lies the archeological site of Sayhuite or Saywite, described by his...
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...
