Bierpinsel: Berlin’s Beer Brush Building
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2016
The Bierpinsel, officially the “Tower Restaurant Steglitz”, was supposed to look like a tree, but it ended up looking like a gigantic brush,...
Bingham Canyon Mine Landslide
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2016
On April 10, 2013, a gigantic chunk of earth and rocks gave away and crashed into the humongous pit created by copper mining at the Bingham ...
The Thousand Shrines of Sahasralinga
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2016
There is a place in the district of Uttara Kannada of Karnataka state in India, where hundreds of shrines of the Hindu god Shiva are carved ...
17th Century Sketches Comparing Human And Animal Faces
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2016
These bizarre sketches were made by French painter and art theorist Charles Le Brun (1619 – 1690) who was declared by King Louis XIV as ...
The $8.5 Million Astolat Dollhouse Castle: World’s Most Expensive Dollhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2016
Appraised at $8.5 million, the Astolat Dollhouse Castle costs more than a fully furnished condo in New York City. But then, this is no ordin...
Colossal Statue of Guan Yu in Jingzhou
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2016
An enormous statue of the ancient Chinese warrior Guan Yu was recently unveiled at a park in Jingzhou city in Hubei province. The statue dep...
The Sand Buried Village of Shoyna
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 13, 2016
Shoyna is a small fishing village located on the Kanin Peninsula in Northern Russia. Situated on the edge of the arctic circle, the inhabita...
The Great Bell of Dhammazedi
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 13, 2016
The Great Bell of Dhammazedi was cast in the late 15th century by order of King Dhammazedi of the Burmese kingdom Hanthawaddy, and presented...
The Sound Mirrors of Great Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2016
World War One was the first major conflict that saw the use of airplanes. During the early years of the fighting, aircraft were mostly used ...
The Ancient Greek Mosaics of Paphos
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2016
The ancient city of Paphos in Cyprus, was once the capital of the island during the Greco-Roman period (3rd century BC to 3rd century AD). I...
The Trillion Dollar Treasure of Padmanabhaswamy Temple
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2016
The famed Padmanabhaswamy temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu, the creator of the universe, in Thiruvananthapuram, in the state of Kerala, has f...
Life-Sized Noah’s Ark at Theme Park in Kentucky
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2016
A creationist group called “Answers in Genesis” who describe themselves as “a fundamentalist Christian apologetics organization” has opened ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 21
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 10, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. A Place Called Earth Earth is a small town in Lamb County, West Texas, United States and is possibly ...
The Valley of the Saints, Brittany
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2016
High on a sloping hillside in the Commune of Carnoet, in Brittany in northwestern France, a large scale project is underway, one that hopes ...
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. ...
