The Tree That Was Arrested
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2016
In the Landi Kotal army cantonment area in present-day Pakistan, there is a banyan tree that is kept chained to the ground as if to prevent ...
The Mysterious Toynbee Tiles
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2016
For the last three decades, somebody has been secretly leaving strange, cryptic messages in dozens of cities all over the United States and ...
Frozen Ice Balls of Lake Michigan And Stroomi Beach
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2016
Every winter, on the shores of Lake Michigan in the United States, as well as on Stroomi beach in northern Tallinn, Estonia, hundreds of fro...
Londoners ‘Celebrate’ Great Fire By Setting Wooden Model on Fire
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2016
A massive wooden replica model of 17th century London was set ablaze on the River Thames on Sunday night to mark the 350th anniversary of th...
Pietra Paesina: Stones That Resemble Ruined Landscape
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2016
In the Northern Apennine mountain areas of Italy, around the city of Florence in Tuscany, a rare kind of limestone is found called “pietra p...
Warship Graveyard of Chuuk Lagoon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2016
Under the clear blue waters of Chuuk Atoll in the South Pacific, seven degrees north of the equator, near New Guinea, lies the wreck of a do...
The Elusive Gigantic Jets of Lightning
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2016
The most common kind of lightning observed from earth discharges from cloud to cloud or from clouds toward the ground. The more elusive form...
Taipei’s Typhoon-Bent Mailboxes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2016
In August 2015, a powerful typhoon named Soudelor slammed into the east coast of Taiwan bringing torrential rain and fierce wind in excess o...
Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2016
What appear to be rocks submerged in the hyper-saline water of Hamelin Pool at the base of Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Austr...
15,000-Year-Old Bison Sculptures at Tuc D'Audoubert Cave
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2016
“Oh my God”, I exclaimed. What a moment. What an impact. I could not believe my eyes. The Bison are incredibly beautiful, incredibly powerfu...
Mystery of The Lost Amber Room
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2016
In the grand palace of Catherine I, the second wife of Peter the Great and Empress of Russia, there once existed a magnificent golden room a...
Denki Buro: The Electric Baths of Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2016
Many public bath houses in Japan have special pools lined with live metal electrodes for those peculiar bathers who would rather have actual...
Chaka Salt Lake: Mirror Of The Sky
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2016
Chaka Salt Lake near the town Chaka in Wulan county is one of the most beautiful lakes of the Qaidam Basin in Northwest China’s Qinghai prov...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 25
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2016
bFrom the archives of Amusing Planet. Island Of The Dolls: Mexico’s Creepiest Place The Island Of The Dolls (Isla de las Muñecas), located...
Boiling Lake of Dominica
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2016
The Morne Trois Pitons National Park in the island country of Dominica, in the Caribbean, is an area of significant volcanic activity. Locat...
‘Fallen Star’, University of California, San Diego
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2016
Teetering on the corner and edge of Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, is a small cottage that appears...
NASA’s Mars Explorers Recruitment Posters
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2016
Continuing with the theme of imaginary space-based scenarios, NASA has released a new set of posters calling for explorers to join them on t...
Polar Stratospheric Clouds And Their Dark Secret
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2016
Sometimes deep into the winter, after sunset or before dawn, sheets of unbelievably bright and vividly colored clouds can be seen forming ag...
Casa di Giulietta: Juliet’s House in Verona
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2016
Shakespeare’s famous play “Romeo and Juliet” maybe a work of fiction, but that hasn’t stopped hundreds of thousands of romantics from making...
Subway Pushers of Japan
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2016
The Japanese rail network is known throughout the world for its superiority and punctuality. In the capital city Tokyo, nearly 40 million pa...
