La Rinconada: The World’s Highest City
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2017
High in the Peruvian Andes, far above the tree line, lies an old gold-mining camp that has, over the years, grown to the status of a city. O...
Bialowieza: Europe’s Last Primeval Forest
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2017
Before the arrival of humans, much of northeastern Europe was covered by primeval forests that stretched for thousands of kilometers across ...
RÃo de la Plata: The Widest River You’ve Never Heard Of
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2017
On the southeast coast of South America, between Uruguay and Argentina, there is a tapering intrusion of the Atlantic Ocean. The funnel-shap...
Alex Chinneck’s Architectural Illusions
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2017
A historic building in London’s Covent Garden, violently slashed through the middle, floats mysteriously in the air with no apparent support...
Xylotheque: The Wood Library
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2017
In 18th century Germany, where modern forestry began, a curious sort of library began to grow. Enthusiasts began to collect samples of diff...
Saatse Boot: A Russia-Estonia Border Anomaly
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2017
In southeast Estonia, in the municipality of Värska Parish, lies a peculiar border irregularity. A small piece of Russian land called the “S...
Thomas Dambo’s Forgotten Giants
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2017
Danish artist Thomas Dambo has been building stuff using trash and recycled materials since an early age, starting with smaller sculptures ...
Nasreddin Hodja of Turkey
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2017
You may have not heard of Nasreddin Hodja, but in the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of Europe, Nasreddin Hodja is a famous folk chara...
Project West Ford: Earth’s Artificial Ring
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2017
In the summer of 1963, the United States successfully put a gigantic ring around the earth. But unlike Saturn, earth’s ring was not made of ...
De Poezenboot: Amsterdam’s Cat Boat
Anonymous
May 3, 2017
A city with over one hundred kilometers of canals, it’s no surprise that Amsterdam is full of houseboats. However, one such boat in the hist...
The Wild Horses of Namib Desert
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2017
The sparsely vegetated plains around Garub on the eastern fringe of the Namib Desert is no paradise. The land is barren, the climate dry and...
Mary And Her Little Lamb
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2017
The childhood nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is familiar to all, but did you know it’s based on a real Mary and a real l...
This Football Stadium in Henningsvær
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2017
The Henningsvær Idrettslag Stadion in the small fishing village of Henningsvær, located on two small islands off Lofoten, in Norway, can har...
The Brand New Island of Surtsey
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2017
Located about 30 kilometers off the southern coast of Iceland, lies the small island of Surtsey. It is one of the world's youngest islan...
The Forgotten Ruins of Mrauk U
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2017
Spread across the beautiful rolling hills of Rakhine in Western Burma, lies a little known archeological site—the medieval town of Mrauk U. ...
The Cyanometer of Ljubljana
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2017
At some point in life, almost every child on Earth asks, “Why is the sky blue?” Today we know the answer—the sky appears blue because molecu...
The Museum of Failure
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2017
Every successful product launch is usually preceded by a string of failures, but we only remember the winners and ignore the failures and pr...
Underwater Mailboxes Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2017
Remember the last time you were diving underwater and you suddenly remembered an important letter you had to post that very instant? Yup, it...
The Dolerite Columns of Coastal Tasmania
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2017
The coastline of the southern Tasmania, in Australia, is composed of stunning rock columns that protrude up to 300 meters from the sea level...
Djerbahood: The Street Art Drive That Transformed A Tunisian Village
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2017
The sleepy little village of Erriadh on the island of Djerba—once known as the “island of dreams”— is not part of Tunisia’s tourist circuit....
