China’s ‘Transit Elevated Bus’ Drives Above Traffic Jams
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2016
China has unveiled a futuristic ‘straddling bus’ that’s capable of driving over other cars stuck in nightmarish traffic jams which has becom...
Achille Knapen’s Air Well
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2016
Billboards and water bottles that produce drinking water out of thin air might look like breakthrough inventions, yet the principles behin...
Berat, The City of Thousand Windows
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2016
The city of Berat in south-central Albania, is renowned for its historic architecture and scenic beauty. A UNESCO World Heritage site, Berat...
The Pirate Island of Île Sainte Marie
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2016
The island of Sainte Marie, or Nosy Boraha, is a narrow granite island located five miles off the remote east coast of Madagascar. This post...
The Cliff House of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2016
Perched on the edge of a cliff, overlooking Ocean Beach, in San Francisco, is one of California’s oldest restaurant famous for its panoramic...
Unusual Drawbridge Railway Crossing in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2016
South of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, are a number of drawbridge-like crossings that carry 2-feet tracks of the Sugar Cane Railway ...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 23
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. Tashirojima - The Cat Island of Japan The Cat Island, officially called Tashirojima, is a small islan...
Ochtinská Aragonite Cave
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2016
The Ochtinská Aragonite Cave, in southern Slovakia, is one of the few caves in the world where aragonite crystals are found. There is one in...
The Reticulated Lagoon of Mataiva Atoll
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2016
Mataiva is a coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, in French Polynesia, located about 311 km north of the island of Tahiti. The ring-shape...
Angels Flight: The World’s Shortest Railway
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2016
Angels Flight is a historic narrow gauge funicular railway located in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California. Dubbed t...
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...
