The “Lone Pine” Trees Growing Across Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2017
Many war memorials across Australia have pine trees growing in their grounds. These trees are called “Lone Pines”, and their ancestry can be...
How Amsterdam’s Airport Is Fighting Noise Pollution With Land Art
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2017
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, located just 9 km southwest of the city, is the third busiest airport in Europe and one of the busiest in the ...
Inkerman Cave Monastery of St. Clement
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2017
The Inkerman Monastery of St. Clement, located near the city of Inkerman at the mouth of the Black River, is built into the natural caves an...
The Sand Covered Floors of Caribbean Synagogues
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2017
The Caribbean is not all about sandy beaches, its about sandy synagogues too. As many as four synagogues in this part of the world have flo...
The Norias of Hama
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2017
The norias of the ancient Syrian city of Hama are seventeen historic waterwheels located along the Orontes River that date back to the Byzan...
Operation Tracer: The Secret Plan To Bury Soldiers Alive Inside The Rock Of Gibraltar
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2017
The great limestone monolith called the Rock of Gibraltar, towering over the small British overseas territory near the southwestern tip of E...
Casa Vicens: Gaudi’s First Building Opens To Public
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2017
More than 130 years after it was built, the first building designed by Barcelona’s famed architect Antoni Gaudi opens to the public for the ...
The Moving Facade of Bund Finance Center, Shanghai
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2017
A new financial quarter is being built near the waterfront of Shanghai's old town. Designed by British architectural firms, Foster + Par...
A New Atmospheric Phenomenon Called Steve
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2017
For the past three years, members of a Facebook group called the Alberta Aurora Chasers , consisting of photographers who exchange tips and ...
Spreewald: Germany’s Venice
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2017
About 100 km south-east of Berlin in the State of Brandenburg, lies the beautiful Spreewald Biosphere Reserve. This low-lying area in which ...
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 Agustín, 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 ...
