The Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mining Museum
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2017
The Sterling Hill Mining Museum in New Jersey, United States, is known for its variety of immersive and educational exhibits, but is best kn...
The Festival of Exploding Sledgehammers
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2017
Every February, residents of the tiny town of San Juan de la Vega in Mexico perform the re-enactment of a four hundred year-old battle that ...
Galileo’s Missing Fingers
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2017
Everybody in Florence knows where Galileo Galilei lies buried. His mortal remains are in a crypt inside the famous Basilica di Santa Croce, ...
The Basement Shops of Sofia
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2017
Street vendors are a common sight in cities across the world. The inability to pay high rent, or the unavailability of cheap commercial spac...
Vilarinho da Furna: A Drowned Roman Village
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2017
Vilarinho da Furna, in the municipality of Terras de Bouro in the Braga district, in northern Portugal, was an old village that was erased f...
The Temple of The Flying Monks
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2017
That tiny orange figure levitating above this futuristic structure high on the Songshan mountain in rural Henan, China, is indeed a monk, al...
The Wild Burros of Oatman, Arizona
Anonymous
Mar 23, 2017
Positioned in the ancient part of old Route 66, in the US state of Arizona, Oatman is full of wild burros —an old Spanish term which means d...
Moroccan Wall: The Longest Minefield in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 23, 2017
You may or you may not have heard about “Western Sahara”, but if you consult Google Maps or any other modern atlas, you will notice this reg...
Japanese Holdouts: The Soldiers Who Wouldn’t Surrender
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2017
Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s surrender at the end of the Second Word War came as a blessed relief to millions of Japanese who ...
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...
