The Ruins of Suakin Island
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2017
The island town of Suakin, in north-eastern Sudan, was an important port for trade and culture on the East African coast for centuries. The ...
Grime’s Graves: A Neolithic Flint Mine
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2017
This strange lunar-like landscape in the middle of Thetford Forest in Norfolk, England, looks very similar to mortar craters in Normandy an...
The Fortress of Mimoyecques
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2017
About twenty kilometers from the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, near the hamlet of Mimoyecques, in northern France, lies a once-secret undergroun...
The Colorful Mansions of El Alto
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2017
Spread out across the Bolivian highlands, at 4,000 meters, the city of El Alto is predominantly ochre-red, with thousands of low, matchbox-l...
Isa lake: The Two-Ocean Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 27, 2017
The Isa Lake Viewpoint, located about 8 miles east of the Old Faithful Area along the Grand Loop Road in Yellowstone National Park, is not a...
Project Habakkuk: Britain’s Secret Ship Made of Ice
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2017
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and no time in history was as desperate as the time when the world’s most powerful nations were...
Pioneertown: A Movie Set That Became A Real Town
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2017
In 1946, a bunch of Hollywood legends including Roy Rogers, Dick Curtis, and Russell Hayden —tired of travelling to far-off locations to sho...
The Mysterious Gotland Grooves
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2017
Scattered throughout the island of Gotland, in the middle of the Baltic Sea, are thousands of stones with strange grooves or furrows cut int...
The Crypt of Civilization
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 22, 2017
Under the foundation of Phoebe Hearst Memorial Hall at Oglethorpe University in Georgia, the United States, is a large room, that was sealed...
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...
