The Chimneypots of Paris Rooftops
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2016
A trivial but iconic architectural element of Europe are the chimneypots that adorn the rooftops of houses and buildings. In Paris, in parti...
Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2016
On 12 May, 2008, a devastating earthquake in Wenchuan County, in Sichuan, China, left nearly 70,000 people killed and over 18,000 missing. A...
Mount Bromo: The Hungry Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 26, 2016
Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia, is the youngest of several volcanoes in the Tengger massif, and is one of Java’s most active volcanoes....
Ai Pioppi: An Amusement Park Built by One Man
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 26, 2016
In the Italian town of Nervesa della Battaglia, about 45 kilometers north of Venice, is a restaurant named Ai Pioppi. Aside from the food an...
Historic Panoramic Paintings And Cycloramas
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2016
The word ‘panorama’ is used very frequently in modern times. The rise of mobile phone photography and the ability to take panoramic photogra...
Asphalt Lakes And The Secrets in Their Depths
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2016
Some of the world’s strangest lakes are filled not with water but with asphalt, also known bitumen, the same material that roads are paved w...
Fictional Bridges on Euro Banknotes Become Real
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2016
In 2002, the European Central Bank introduced seven new bank notes to the union. Each note featured an artwork of a bridge on the back. Acco...
Paternoster: This Elevator Never Stops
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2016
The paternoster is kind of elevator that consist of a chain of open compartments that move up and down continuously through the vertical sha...
The Round City of Baghdad
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2016
The city of Baghdad was founded in the 8th century as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, by its caliph al-Mansur. The Caliphate had just ...
The Giant Pink Bunny at Colletto Fava
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2016
On the hills of the 5,000 foot high Colletto Fava mountain in northern Italy's Piedmont region, there lies an enormous pink bunny. The t...
The Infinite Bridge in Aarhus, Denmark
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2016
The “Infinite Bridge” is located in Denmark’s second-largest city Aarhus. Designed by Gjøde & Povlsgaard Arkitekter for the 2015 “Sculpt...
Friedrich Bayer Bridge, Sao Paulo
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2016
The Friedrich Bayer Bridge is located in front of headquarters of the German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer, in Sao Paulo, Brazi...
Whitney Plantation: America’s First And Only Slavery Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2016
Whitney Plantation is located near Wallace, in Louisiana, on the historic River Road in St. John the Baptist Parish, less than an hour from...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 22
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. Spectacular Caves and Rocks at Staffa Island The island of Staffa in Scotland is probably best known ...
UNESCO Inscribes 9 New Heritage Sites
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2016
The World Heritage Committee, the cultural arm of the United Nations is currently meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, for its 40th session. The com...
Justo Gallego’s Self Built Cathedral
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2016
About 20 km from Madrid is the small town of Mejorada del Campo. There on a farmland inherited from his family, Justo Gallego MartÃnez, bett...
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 ...
