The Shrines of Aspen Mountain
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2016
Tucked in the woods surrounding the many ski areas around Aspen, in the US state of Colorado, are countless shrines and memorials. Hidden am...
Clarke Bedford’s Bizarre Art House And Cars
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2016
On Nicholson Street in Hyattsville, in Maryland, the US, stands the outlandishly decorated house of Clarke Bedford, a retired art conservato...
8 Living Memorials Shaped Out of Trees
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2016
Building a memorial out of stone and concrete is one way to pay tribute to a person, but a truly unique and symbolic way of memorializing so...
The Cannon And The Bell: The Tsars of Moscow Kremlin
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2016
Cannons and bells have always had a special relationship. They are made from the same metals and often in the same factory. Throughout histo...
Venus of Berekhat Ram: The World’s Oldest Piece of Art That Predates Humans
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2016
To the untrained eye, this tiny piece of volcanic rock vaguely resembling a female figurine looks natural, but under the microscope, the gro...
The Decorative Chimneys of Hampton Court Palace
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2016
Back in the middle ages, a heated home was a luxury that the majority did not have. Most people huddled around an open hearth in the center ...
Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2016
For the last 35 years, Alabama resident Tom Hendrix has been building a mile-long monument, in his hometown Florence, to honor his great-gre...
Unconditional Surrender
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2016
On San Diego’s harbor, right next to the maritime museum aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway, stands a 25-foot-tall statue depicting a sa...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 27
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. Spectacular Opera on Lake Stage at Bregenz Since 1946, the Bregenz Festival ‘Opera on the Lake’ in Au...
Istanbul’s Famous ‘Meme Cat’ Honored With Statue
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2016
On the occasion of World Animal Day on October 4, Istanbul unveiled a sculpture in the likeness of Tombili, a cat that shot into fame early ...
Jison-in: Japan’s Boob Temple
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2016
Situated at the base of Mount Koya, in the small town of Kudoyama, in Wakayama prefecture, the Jison-in temple looks looks no different than...
The Catacombs of Odessa
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2016
Underneath the city of Odessa, in Ukraine, is an extensive network of tunnels believed to be the largest catacomb system in the world. Large...
The Wrecked Bomber of Huu Tiep Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2016
On the night of December 27, 1972, a US bomber B-52 was knocked out of the sky during a bombing raid on Hanoi, Vietnam. A part of the wrecka...
Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice’s Flooded Bookstore
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2016
During the winter months, Venice suffers from bouts of periodic flooding, known as acqua alta , caused by exceptionally high tides that occu...
Bighorn Medicine Wheel
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2016
Some Native American cultures built large stone circles by laying stones in a particular pattern on the ground. They are known as “medicine ...
Kofun: Japan's Keyhole-Shaped Burial Mounds
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2016
The landscape around Kansai, in southern-central Japan, especially around Osaka and Nara, is dotted by curious keyhole-shaped mounds surroun...
The Orange Rocks of Bay of Fires
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
The Bay of Fires, on the northeastern coast of Tasmania in Australia, is a large bay that extends for about 30 km from Binalong Bay in the s...
The Lost Villages of St. Lawrence
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
In 1954, the United States and Canada jointly embarked on a massive engineering project that involved the creation of a 600-km-long navigabl...
The Brown Dog Affair
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2016
In a secluded spot near the Old English Garden, in London’s Battersea Park, is a small bronze statue of a terrier. The statue was erected in...
Siq, Petra’s Spectacular Gorge
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2016
The ancient city of Petra, located in the heart of the mountainous desert of southern Jordan, had different approaches in the past. One poss...
