Thomasson: Architectural Relics That Serve No Purpose
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2017
A city is like a living organism, constantly growing and evolving with time. Buildings get renovated, new structures are added and old ones ...
Labuan’s Mystery Chimney
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2017
Standing on a rise on the north of the island of Labuan, located off the coast of East Malaysia, is a 100-feet tall red brick chimney. The c...
The Wreck of Swedish Warship Mars
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2017
About 18 km off the coast the Swedish island of Öland, in the Baltic Sea, at a depth of about 75 meters, lies one of the most beautiful ship...
The Bottlecap Alley
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2017
For years, boozers from the Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and elsewhere, have been paving a short alley located betwee...
Lahaina Noon: When Shadows Disappear
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2017
Notice anything odd about this picture? The sun is out as you can tell by the shadows under the cars and on the walls. But why aren’t the ye...
Venta Rapid: Europe’s Widest Waterfalls
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2017
At just 2 meters tall, the Venta Rapid, or Ventas Rumba in Latvian, is one of the smallest waterfalls in the world. But its low height is co...
Inuit Tactile Maps of Greenland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2017
Like everybody else, the Inuit people of Greenland have been making maps to navigate the rugged coastline, but unlike maps made on paper, th...
Colletta di Castelbianco: A Modern Stone Village
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2017
Up on the steep hillside of the Maritime Alps near the Italian Riviera, halfway between Genoa and Nice, lies the ancient medieval village of...
Mark Twain’s Study at Elmira College
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2017
On the campus of Elmira College in upstate New York sits a small octagonal wooden cabin with a writing desk and chair, a brick fireplace and...
The World’s Quietest Train Stations
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2017
Some of the world’s busiest train stations are located in Japan. Indeed, as per statistics that surfaced in 2013, out of the top 51 train st...
The Japanese Hotel Staffed By Robots
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2017
In the last few weeks, we have been hearing a lot about how robots have been replacing human workers across industries in developed countrie...
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 ...
