Signal Hill: The Birthplace of Modern Communications
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2017
Overlooking the harbour of St John's, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, is a massive piece of rock towering 140 meters above the Atl...
London’s Cabmen's Shelters
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2017
Scattered throughout the streets of London, often overlooked, are small green sheds that have been offering shelter and hot food to the city...
The Devil’s Corkscrews
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2017
In the mid-1800s, ranchers across Sioux County, in the US state of Nebraska, began unearthing strange, spiral structures of hardened rock-li...
Iligan, The City of Majestic Waterfalls
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2017
The city of Iligan, in the Northern Mindanao region of Philippines, is one of the country’s major city and the industrial center of the sout...
Rocamadour—The Vertical Village
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2017
Since medieval times, the village of Rocamadour in the Occitanie region of southwestern France has attracted pilgrims from across Europe for...
The Witness Trees of The American Civil War
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2017
Across the United States there are hundreds and thousands of trees that have stood around for many centuries and bore witness to the history...
Old Sarum of Salisbury
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2017
Old Sarum in Salisbury, England, is a historically important archeological site consisting of an Iron Age hillfort and what little remains o...
Hill of the Buddha
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2017
The Hill of the Buddha is a giant Buddha statue located atop a small hill near a cemetery in the Japanese island Hokkaido. The statue was bu...
The Closes of Edinburgh
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2017
The Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, consisted originally of the main street, now known as the Royal Mile, and a large number of small alley...
The Mysterious Erdstalls Tunnels
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2017
Across Europe, there are hundreds of underground tunnels that lead to nowhere and about which no historic records have ever been found. They...
The Art of Deliberate Imperfection
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2017
Some people are perfectionists, going great lengths and through punishing routines to achieve the perfect figure, the perfect score, the ini...
Ytterby: The Village That Chemists Love
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2017
What do the following ten chemical elements have in common? Yttrium Ytterbium Terbium Erbium Gadolinium Thulium Scandium Holmium D...
Elche, The City of Palm Trees
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2017
In the city of Elche, in Spain, there is a large grove of palm trees that’s the only one of its kind in Europe, and one of the largest palm ...
The Stilt Walking Shepherds of Landes
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2017
The Landes region of southwestern France, bordering the Bay of Biscay, is covered by a large pine forest. In fact, it’s the largest ‘maritim...
The Silo Art Trail in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2017
For more than a hundred years, grain silos doting the plains across the Wimmera-Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, have defined the state...
Wooden Churches of Maramures
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2017
In the Maramureș region of northern Romania are a group of almost one hundred Orthodox churches built between the 17th and the 19th centurie...
Castel del Monte, Andria
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2017
On top of a small hill overlooking the comune of Andria, in the Italian region Apulia, stands one of the strangest looking castle. This 13th...
Traboule: The Secret Alleyways of Lyon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2017
Below is a satellite image showing the old quarters of the French city of Lyon, by the river Saone. As you can see, there are a couple of st...
The Backstugas of Sweden
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2017
In a forest in southern Småland, in southern Sweden, there is a small earthen cabin you can rent on Airbnb. The cabin is partially buried in...
Rhythmic Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2017
Rhythmic springs are those springs that exhibit tidal characteristics. In other words, the water level of these springs rises and falls over...
