The Buddhas of Bamiyan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2017
On the cliff face of a sandstone mountain, visible from the ancient Silk Road near the town of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, are two massive voids...
Jealous Wall: Ireland’s Largest Folly
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2017
The Belvedere House and Gardens located on the shores of Lough Ennell near Mullingar, County Westmeath in Ireland, contains several architec...
The Floating Fish Farms of China
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2017
In the sheltered coastal waters of the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, there are large fish farms whe...
The Spectacular Sets of Early 20th Century New York Theater
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2017
Many theatrical set designers today follow the maxim of “less is more”, but in the old days when theaters had to compete with moving picture...
Joe Reginella’s Memorials to Disasters That Never Happened
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2017
Most remember October 29th, 1929—also known as Black Tuesday—as the day when the New York stock market crashed. However, it was also the day...
Inside The Strange World of Soviet Sanatoriums
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2017
In Soviet Russia, vacations were as purposeful as work. Many state workers of the era, instead of wasting time in idleness, used the holiday...
Alexander Graham Bell's Tetrahedral Kites
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2017
Alexander Graham Bell is best remembered for inventing the telephone, but the great Scottish inventor’s interests weren’t limited to just on...
Moscow’s Bagel House
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2017
In the early 1970s, Russian architect Evgeny Stamo and engineer Alexander Markelov came up with plans for an unusual house in the capital ci...
Rivers of Blood: The Aftermath of Eid al-Adha in Dhaka
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2017
Early last month, a macabre image of a little girl posing in what appears to be a street flooded with blood-stained rainwater went viral ove...
The Earth Pyramids of South Tyrol
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2017
At many places across South Tyrol, in northern Italy, one can see a peculiar geological formation called “earth pyramids”. They consist of t...
Ireland’s Famine Follies
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2017
In the grounds of the Castletown Estate, near the Irish town of Maynooth, is a large stone structure comprising of interlocking arches, ador...
A Garden In A Sinkhole
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2017
The region in the southeast of South Australia, near Mount Gambier, is littered with many volcanic and karst features such as volcanic crate...
The Mysterious Sajama Lines of Bolivia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2017
Crisscrossing the highland plains in western Bolivia is a network of thousands of near perfectly straight lines etched into the ground. Thes...
The Stockholm Telephone Tower
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2017
By the late 19th century, the miracle device called the telephone had been invented but the simple concept of undergrounding telephone cable...
Appian Way, The First Roman Road
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2017
Of the many things the Romans were famous for, roads rank pretty high in the list by importance, along with bridges, viaducts and canals. To...
The Dust Bowl of The 1930s
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2017
The 1930s were some of the driest years in American history. Eight long years of drought, preceded by inappropriate cultivation technique, a...
The Cathedral of Light
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2017
Every year, the Nazi Party used to hold large annual rallies in Nuremberg, which was at that time the center of the German Reich. These rall...
The Mossy Lava Fields of Iceland
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2017
Moss is a common plant in Iceland. It grows abundantly in the mountainous region and is a special characteristic of Iceland’s lava fields. O...
Lanterns Of The Dead
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2017
During the 12th century, people in the central and western parts of France erected small towers in their villages with windows at the top, i...
Puzzling Gravestones
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2017
When Canadian doctor Samuel Bean lost his first two wives, Henrietta and Susanna, within 20 months of each other, he decided that the best w...
