Beehive Fences: Using Bees To Keep Elephants Away From Crops
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2016
Protecting crops from raiding elephants is not an easy task for Africans farmers where wild elephants often roam free, until a group of Brit...
Cretto di Burri: The Concrete Labyrinth of Gibellina
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2016
On the Italian island of Sicily, about 70 km from the capital city Palermo, is a huge labyrinth of concrete hugging the side of a hill like ...
The Ancient Yew Forest of Kingley Vale
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2016
Tucked between Stoke Down and Bow Hill, near the village of West Stoke about three miles north west of Chichester, in West Sussex in souther...
Vietnamese Water Puppet Shows
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2016
For centuries, Vietnamese kids and grown-ups alike have been entertained by a unique kind of puppet show —one that is performed on water. Th...
America’s Strangest Conventions
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2016
For the last three years, American photographer Arthur Drooker has been to a dozen conventions across the country, photographing some of the...
Sultan Amir Ahmad Bathhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2016
The Sultan Amir Ahmad Bathhouse in Kashan, Iran, is a 16th century public bathhouse built during the time of the Safavid empire, which ruled...
Cedars of Lebanon, The Cedars of God
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2016
The Lebanon Cedar or cedrus libani is one of the most majestic trees of the world. They grow exclusively on Mount Lebanon, a mountain range...
Kaninchenfeld: The Brass Rabbits of Berlin
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2016
Berlin was once divided into East and West Berlin by a massive concrete wall, the infamous Berlin Wall, that created a 155-km-long strip of ...
World’s Thinnest Observation Tower i360 Opens in Brighton
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2016
A shiny steel and glass, doughnut-shaped viewing platform rose up against a slender pole on the seafront of the English town of Brighton, ye...
US Wildlife Service Finds Similarities Between PokemonGo Characters And Actual Wildlife
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2016
Although I couldn’t care less about the recent PokemonGo foolery that’s appeared to have seized the world over, I find it highly amusing how...
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...
