Postman’s Park’s Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2017
Tucked away in a quiet corner of Postman's Park in central London, easily overlooked, lies a remarkable memorial. Under a wooden canopy,...
Sarajevo Tunnel: The Tunnel of Hope
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2017
Five meters below the runway of Sarajevo's airport runs a short stretch of tunnel that was dug out during the Siege of Sarajevo to bring...
Elgin Marbles: A Piece of The Parthenon in London
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2017
Should a museum keep artistic treasures it acquired under dubious circumstances a long time ago, or should it return them to their country o...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 33
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2017
From the archives of Amusing Planet. Tristan da Cunha - The Most Remote Island in the World Tristan da Cunha is a volcanic island in the m...
Floating Houses of Lake Bokodi
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2017
Lake Bokodi, in the village of Bokod, about 80 kilometers west of Budapest, Hungary, is an artificial lake created in 1961 by the Oroszlány ...
The Romantic Tale Of The Chicken Farmer Rock
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2017
Verona might be the birthplace of the most famous love story in literature, but the small village of Newbury, in the state of New Hampshire,...
The Mystery of Carolina Bays
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2017
In the 1930s, when the Atlantic coast was being photographed from airplanes for the first time in history, a curious geological feature came...
The Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 15, 2017
The town of Ait-Ben-Haddou, located on the southern slopes of the High Atlas Mountains, is one of the most spectacular manmade sights along ...
The Russian Gangster Cemetery in Yekaterinburg
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2017
The Shirokorechenskoe Cemetery, located on the southwestern outskirts of Yekaterinburg, in Russia, is the final resting place of many famous...
The Waffle Rock
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 13, 2017
Just outside the visitor center of Jennings Randolph Lake, in Mineral County, in the US state of West Virginia, is a large piece of rock on ...
Point Nemo: The Spacecraft Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 13, 2017
Far off the east coast of New Zealand, about 3,300 kilometers out in the Pacific Ocean, lies one of the geekiest junkyard in the world. It’s...
The Grave With A Window
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2017
There is a curious grave at Evergreen Cemetery in the West River neighborhood of New Haven, Vermont, the United States. It’s a small grassy ...
Lungfish, The Fish That Lives On Land
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2017
The lungfish, also known as salamanderfish, is a type of freshwater fish best known for its ability to live on land, without water, for mont...
Verkhoyansk: Siberia’s Pole of Cold
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2017
In the remote Yakutia region of Siberia, more than a hundred kilometers inside the Arctic Circle, lies the small town of Verkhoyansk. Winter...
The Hermits of Karoulia of Mount Athos
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2017
Mount Athos, located on a Greek peninsula in the Aegean Sea, is home to one of the oldest surviving monastic community on Earth. The mountai...
The Bear Moat of Český Krumlov Castle
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2017
The historic Český Krumlov Castle in the small city of Český Krumlov, in the Czech Republic, was built in the mid-13th century by the powerf...
The Sundial Cannon of Åtvidaberg
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2017
In the not-too-distant past, before the invention of modern timekeeping devices, noontime —the moment when the sun is at the highest positio...
Santa Cruz Del Islote: A Crowded Utopia
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2017
Santa Cruz del Islote is a tiny coral island, and one of the smallest, in the archipelago of San Bernardo off the coast of Colombia. It is o...
Alert: The Most Northern Settlement in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2017
Located just over eight hundred kilometers away from the North Pole, the community of Alert, on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, in...
A Spotlight Of Snow
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2017
The other day, NASA’s Earth Observatory posted some interesting pictures about localized snow in the Netherlands. Several fields in Heensch...
