The Spite Towers of Irish Hills
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2016
Standing atop a small knoll along the highway between Detroit and Chicago, the Twin Towers of Irish Hills in Lenawee County, in Southeast Mi...
Tehachapi Loop
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2016
The Tehachapi Loop is an iconic spiral loop, 1.17 km long, that passes over itself as it gains height on the railroad main line through Teha...
The Million Dollar Point of Vanuatu
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 29, 2016
Located off the coast of EspÃrito Santo, an island belonging to the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, is a vast undersea junkyard of military...
The Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 29, 2016
Just north of Auckland, overlooking the expansive Kaipara Harbour, is the private park of New Zealand businessman, entrepreneur and avid art...
Orlando Towers in Johannesburg
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 29, 2016
In Orlando township in the urban area of Soweto, in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, stands two cooling towers of the decommissioned ...
The Nuclear Bunker Where America Preserves Its Audio-Visual Heritage
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2016
The Library of Congress has over 160 million items in its collection, including 23 million books, and more than 1.1 million films, and telev...
The Sponge Divers of Greece
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2016
Most sponge that we use today are synthetic, but in the old days sponge was collected from the sea bed. Some of the finest-quality sea spong...
USS Recruit: The Battleship That Sprang Up In The Middle of New York City
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2016
In the spring of 1917, when the United States entered the First World War, the need for more sailors and marines became paramount. In order ...
Goodwin Sands And Its Shipwrecks
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 23, 2016
Six miles off the coast of Deal in East Kent, England, lies one of the most treacherous stretches of sand in Britain. Lying in the middle of...
The Bungalows of Eastern Serbia’s Cemeteries
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 23, 2016
From a distance, the tiny houses on the outskirts of the eastern Serbian village of Smoljinac looks like a couple of cozy summer cabins. It’...
Trees Made Famous by Movies, Music, Art And Literature
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2016
Movies, music and literature has brought fame to millions, but not all celebrities are humans. Sometimes, a tree becomes the unexpected cent...
Bozouls: A French Town Perched Above A ‘Hole’
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2016
Trou de Bozouls, or “the hole of Bozouls”, is a large horseshoe-shaped canyon located near the commune of Bozouls in the Aveyron department ...
Tokyo’s Iconic Shibuya Crossing
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2016
It’s hard to believe that in a mega metropolis like Tokyo, one of the biggest attraction is not a tower or a statue or a museum or a park, b...
The Sunken City on Kekova Island
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2016
The ancient Lycian city of Simena, often referred to as Kekova-Simena, once straddled the long and narrow island of Kekova in the Mediterran...
The Hell’s Bells of Cenote Zapote
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2016
Deep below the surface, inside the water filled caverns of Cenote Zapote in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, stalactites grow into strange sh...
Tommy Tucker: The Famous Squirrel Who Cross-Dressed And Sold War Bonds
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2016
It is said that Tommy Tucker fell from a tree one fine afternoon in 1942 in the backyard of the Bullis’ house, in Washington, D.C., while he...
The Mounds of North America
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2016
The American heartland was once dotted by thousands of ceremonial and burial mounds. They occurred over a large area that stretched from the...
Naples’ Secret Museum of Erotic Art
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2016
When the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were unearthed from under volcanic ash at the foothills of Mount Vesuvius, in the ...
The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2016
Two hours northwest of Tokyo in Chichibu, there is a museum of rocks called Chinsekikan where you won’t learn a thing about geology. However...
The Hoodoos of Goblin Valley State Park
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2016
One of the strangest places in Utah, United States, is Goblin Valley located in Emery County between the towns of Green River and Hanksville...
