Campo Del Cielo Meteorite Field
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2016
About 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, a huge chunk of space rock fell in Argentina, but it didn’t fell in one piece. It broke up as it entered the...
Monument to The Conquerors of Space
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2016
In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the United States in the space race. They launched the first artificial satellite of e...
The Dead Cities of Syria
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2016
Scattered across the vast Limestone Massif, in the northwest of Syria, between the Orontes and Afrin Rivers to the west and the Aleppo/Hama ...
Sperrgebiet: The National Park You Can’t Visit
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2016
In southwestern Namibia lies a vast area that’s been off-limits to visitors for more than a century. It stretches along the Namibian coast f...
Artist Creates Record-Breaking Mural For Rio Olympics
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
While athletes compete for various titles at Rio’s ongoing Olympic Games, one Brazilian graffiti artist Eduardo Kobra is attempting to enter...
Faro a Colon: The Columbus Lighthouse
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
In Santo Domingo Este of Dominican Republic, is a towering monument dedicated to Christopher Columbus. It’s called “Faro a Colon”, which is ...
Inside Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market: The World’s Biggest Fish Market
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
Sandwiched between Sumida River and the upmarket Ginza shopping district, in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, is a large wholesale market for fruit...
Girard Henderson’s Luxurious Cold War Era Underground Bomb Shelter
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2016
During the Cold War, the US government launched a country-wide effort to prepare its citizens for a possible thermonuclear war. Children wer...
Survivor Trees Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2016
Every now and then, a calamity —either natural or man-made— strikes humanity and just when it appears that no living being could survive the...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 24
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. What’s Cooking? - Cutaway Food Photography by Ryan Matthew Smith Ryan Matthew Smith’s photo series “M...
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...
