The Sacred Grove of Bomarzo
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2017
Once upon a time there was a young nobleman who, after the death of his beloved wife, became so distraught with grief and anguish that he de...
Vozrozhdeniya, The Anthrax Island
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2017
In the 1920s, the Soviet government began searching for an isolated place where they could build a military complex to test biological weapo...
The Forgotten Nubian Pyramids of Meroe
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2017
About 200 km northeast of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in a valley known as Nubia, lies the remains of three ancient Kushite kingdoms. He...
The Squatters of Grande Hotel Beira
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2017
You might not know this, but Mozambique is one of the fastest growing tourist destination in the world. Its wild beauty and untamed nature h...
The Unfinished Obelisk of Aswan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2017
The granite quarries located along the Nile, in the city of Aswan, supplied some of the finest quality stones for the construction of temple...
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...
