Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished Mosques
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2016
In the late 1990s, amidst rising poverty and with four million residents on the verge of famine, the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein deci...
The Pout Of A Red-Lipped Batfish
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2016
Named after Charles Darwin, Ogcocephalus darwini, or the red-lipped batfish, is an unusual looking fish. It is a type of anglerfish, the sa...
Gilmerton Cove of Edinburg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2016
Just a few meters beneath the streets of Gilmerton, an ex-mining village on the southern edge of the city of Edinburgh, in Scotland, lies a ...
Citadelle Laferrière of Haiti
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2016
The Citadelle Laferrière, located on top of a mountain in northern Haiti, is one of the largest fortresses in the Americas. The Citadel was ...
Towers of Silence
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2016
The Zoroastrians have an unusual way of disposing off their dead. They neither bury them nor cremate them. Instead, corpses are left atop hi...
Belchite: The Ruins of The Spanish Civil War
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2016
Forty kilometer southeast of the city of Zaragoza, in north-eastern Spain, lies the ghost town of Belchite, that was destroyed in 1937 durin...
11 Foot 8 Inches: The Infamous ‘Can Opener’ Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2016
At 11 foot 8 inches, the Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass, located in Durham, North Carolina, United States, is a bit too short. The...
Nagoro: The Japanese Village of Dolls
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2016
The village of Nagoro on the south-western island of Shikoku, in Japan, was once home to hundreds of residents. But over the years, Nagoro’s...
Lycurgus Cup: A Piece of Ancient Roman Nanotechnology
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2016
In the 1950s, the British Museum came into possession an ancient glass chalice called the Lycurgus Cup, so named for its depiction of Dionys...
The Golden Fire Hydrant of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2016
After a massive earthquake rocked the city of San Francisco on April 18, 1906, fires erupted all around the city from ruptured gas lines, ov...
The Island Where Donkeys Wear Pyjamas
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2016
The Island of Rhea, or Île-de-Ré in French, off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, is a popular summer destination known for its gen...
The Sewer Gas Destructor Lamps of England
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2016
In Victorian England, gas build-up in underground sewers was often a problem for the city dwellers. Old sewers were not always laid on suffi...
The ‘Whiskey War’ of Hans Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2016
In the remote north of the Atlantic Ocean, right on the edge of the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean, lies a tiny speck of an island. Nam...
The Plague Village Of Eyam And Its Great Sacrifice
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2016
The Great Plague of London affected many places across England, but one small village in Derbyshire called Eyam, will always be remembered f...
World War 2 Wrecks of Solomon Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2016
In the remote South Pacific, east of Papua New Guinea, and not far from Australia, lies a string of about nine hundred islands that make up ...
Pozzo di S. Patrizio
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
Pozzo di S. Patrizio, or the St. Patrick's Well, is a historic well in Orvieto, Umbria, central Italy, built between 1527 and 1537 at th...
The Ghosts of St. George’s Church in Lekova
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
For nearly fifty years, St. George’s Church in the village of Lukova, in Czech Republic, lay abandoned. The last congregation held in this 1...
The Birth Of An Ocean: The Afar Rift of Ethiopia
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
In the remote Afar depression in northern Ethiopia, the African Continent is slowly splitting apart and a new ocean is forming. Normally geo...
The Remarkable Story of St Kilda’s Residents
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2016
The remote archipelago of St Kilda, off the west coast of the Scottish mainland, is truly an isolated place. Located some 64 km west of the ...
The Strange Victorian Dinosaurs of Crystal Palace Park
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2016
Inside an enclosure at the Crystal Palace Park in London, is a collection of over thirty concrete sculptures of dinosaurs. Built more than o...
