Agloe: A Fake Town That Became Real
Anonymous
Mar 19, 2017
In the 1930s, a small town named Agloe suddenly began appearing on the maps of New York. It was positioned near an unmarked dirt road that l...
The Battle for Castle Itter: The Strangest Battle of WW2
Anonymous
Mar 19, 2017
In the waning days of the Second World War, five days after Hitler shot himself in his bunker in Berlin, one of the most bizarre battle took...
Thilafushi: Maldives’s Garbage Island
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 11, 2017
What does an island with not a speck of land to spare do to get rid of hundreds of tons of garbage generated each day by its one million yea...
The Mysterious Caynton Caves
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2017
What appears to be an ordinary rabbit hole in a farmer's field is actually the humble entrance to a large underground cave whose origins...
Monument to The Armenian Alphabet
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2017
Located near the village of Artashavan, close to the highway, in Armenia, stands 39 giant carved Armenian letters dedicated to the language ...
This Croatian Island Looks Like A Giant Fingerprint
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2017
This tiny island in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of Croatia, has been under a lot of attention in recent times. Located in the Sibenik ar...
Chaiten: The Town Buried By A Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2017
Early in the morning of May 2, 2008, a volcano located about 10 km to the north of the town of Chaitén, near the Gulf of Corcovado in southe...
Bridegroom's Oak: The Tree With Its Own Postal Address
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2017
Bräutigamseiche, Dodauer Forst, 23701 Eutin, Germany If you write a letter addressed to the address above, it will end up in knothole of an...
The Deepest Metro Stations in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 6, 2017
The average metro train doesn’t go beyond a few stories underground. But sometimes the geology and the geography of the region, such as the ...
The Witty Epitaphs of Key West Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2017
A cemetery might seem like an odd destination on a tourist circuit, but the one in Key West, Florida, has a lot of history and some rather i...
The Museum of Broken Relationships
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2017
An empty bottle of whiskey, a pair of fake breasts, a pair of tattered blue jeans, a toaster, an axe, and a stack of Brazilian Playboy magaz...
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...
