The Sand Collars of The Moon Snail
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2017
These strange-looking frilly edged flat spirals made of sand sometimes wash ashore on tropical beaches. They are called sand collars—so call...
The Pines That Lean Towards The Equator
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2017
Most trees grow vertically straight, but under challenging conditions where individuals have to compete for light, or when mechanical stress...
El Helicoide: A Shopping Mall That Became A Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2017
Sitting on top of a small natural hill, amidst the slums of San AgustÃn, in south-central Caracas, Venezuela, is a magnificent building with...
Pomerode: The Most German Town In Brazil
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2017
About thirty kilometers to the north of Blumenau, a city in Brazil, lies the town of Pomerode, so named because its founders came from Pomer...
Rama’s Bridge: A Bridge Built By Monkeys
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2017
In the great Indian epic of Ramayana, penned several thousand years ago, author Valmiki speaks of a bridge over the ocean connecting India a...
The Melbourne Building With A Face
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2017
Some people see faces in everything—in clouds, in the arrangement of faucets on a sink, on a power socket, and on the facade of a building. ...
The Hanging Houses of Cuenca
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2017
In the Castile–La Mancha region of central Spain, the Júcar river has carved a deep gorge as it flows through the Iberian Peninsula. Along i...
Magdalen: The Island of Shipwreck Survivors
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2017
The small archipelago of Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, off the coast of the Canadian province of Quebec, is home to some 1...
Mudflat Hiking in The Wadden Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2017
The southeastern edge of the North Sea, along the coast from Denmark through to the Netherlands, is a shallow belt of mudflats and barrier i...
Jamestown: The First English Settlement in America
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2017
More than a hundred years after Christopher Columbus’ historic voyage in 1492, a team of roughly one hundred colonists left England in late ...
Cerro Rico: The Mountain That Eats Men
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2017
High in the Andes, in southwest Bolivia, towering above one of the highest cities in the world, stands the cone-shaped peak of Cerro Rico —t...
Giant Hand Sculptures Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2017
The other day, a pair of giant hands appeared rising out of a canal in Venice, as if to support the sides of the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. It was a...
The Ravens of The Tower of London
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2017
For many centuries, the historic Tower of London, on the north bank of the River Thames, has been guarded by ravens. These winged creatures ...
The Stone Labyrinths of Bolshoi Zayatsky Island
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2017
Bolshoi Zayatsky is a small island belonging to the Solovetsky archipelago in the Onega Bay of the White Sea, in Russia. The island is home ...
Seoul’s Floating Skygarden
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2017
A kilometer-long section of a disused overpass in the heart of Seoul has been converted into an urban nursery with more than 24,000 potted p...
The Underground Homes of Matmata, Tunisia
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2017
A lot of communities around the world, particularly those in hot climates, traditionally live in caves to escape the heat. The Berbers of Ma...
The Turtle Graveyard of Sipadan
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2017
Back in the early 1980s, the famous ocean explorer Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau and his team paid a visit to the island of Sipadan, off the...
The Lava Tubes of Undara Volcanic National Park
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2017
In the vast savannah of Australia’s North Queensland, 300 km southwest from the city of Cairns, lies the Undara Volcanic National Park where...
The Missile at Madison Quarry Lake
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2017
Standing in the middle of an old and abandoned limestone quarry in Madison, in the US state of Alabama, is a 53-foot-tall nuclear missile. T...
The Big Circles of Jordan
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2017
The Big Circles are a collection of 12 giant circular stone structures spread across parts of Jordan and Syria. Despite they being over 2,00...
