The Triple Bridge of Pontarfynach
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2018
About 15 km outside Aberystwyth, in Wales, is a small village named Pontarfynach, meaning “the bridge on the Mynach”. As the name suggest, t...
Bir Tawil: The Land No Country Wants
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2018
Wedged between the borders of Egypt and Sudan is a small parcel of land that is truly unique in this world. It is one of the last unclaimed ...
The Delicate Art of Cobweb Paintings
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2018
Who could have thought that the delicate, fine, silky threads of a spider’s cobweb could be woven into a canvas strong enough to withstand t...
Whale Graveyards
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 22, 2018
Movement of the earth’s crust over millions of years have drastically changed the geography of the planet such that what is land now was onc...
The Immovable Ladder of Jerusalem’s Church of The Holy Sepulchre
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2018
Underneath one of the arched windows of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of Jerusalem, there is an old wooden ladder casual...
The Ships Buried Under San Francisco’s Streets
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2018
Beneath the streets of San Francisco’s financial district lie the remains of dozens of sailing ships that once brought people to San Francis...
Fermont’s Inhabitable Wind Break
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2018
The town of Fermont, situated near the Quebec-Labrador border, is a Canadian mining town. It was founded in the early 1970s by the Québec Ca...
Why is Water Pouring Out of This Tree in Montenegro?
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2018
The Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty recently shared a video about a unique natural phenomenon in a village called Dinoša, located in southe...
Alexander Fleming’s Microbial Art
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2018
Alexander Fleming is widely known as the brilliant microbiologist who gave the world the miraculous life-saving drug called antibiotic. But ...
Rat King: The Mysterious Conjoined Creature
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 15, 2018
On a cold January morning in 2005, in the village of Saru in southern Estonia, farmer Rein Kıiv and his son made a curious discovery. On the...
The Rocks That Give Birth
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 12, 2018
In the Freita mountain range in northern Portugal, close to a village called Castanheira, is a huge block of granite that periodically eject...
The Seaweed Houses of Læsø Island
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2018
On the island of Læsø, located off the coast of Denmark, there are houses with roofs made of seaweed. These roofs are up to a meter thick, a...
Why Are These Postage Stamps Cut in Half?
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2018
Would you cut a ten dollar bill in half and use as two five dollar bills? Of course not. It's silly to even suggest something like that....
Bank of Vernal: The Building That Was Mailed Through The Post
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2018
The inauguration of domestic parcel post service by the United States Postal Office in 1913 was an epochal event in the lives of thousands o...
Vinegar Valentines: The Victorian Tradition of Sending Anonymous Hate Mail
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2018
In the late 19th century, Valentine's Day was more than an occasion for lovers to express their love for each other by sending greetings...
The Basement Cemetery of The New Haven Green Church
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2018
The New Haven Green in downtown New Haven, a city in Connecticut, USA, is a small park of about 16 acres. Being surrounded by buildings of t...
The Magnificent Mudbrick Mosques of West Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2018
All around the Muslim world, mosques have a typical architecture characterized by a minaret, a dome, arches and mosaics or stucco decoration...
Priest Holes: Secret Chambers That Hid Mediaeval Priests
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2018
In mediaeval England, when feuds were violent and justice swift and brutal, it was common for castles and mansions of the powerful and the w...
Yaodong: China’s Pit Houses
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2018
For more than four thousand years, on the Loess Plateau in northern China, people have been residing in caves known as yaodong, which is Chi...
Women Who Become Men: The Sworn Virgins of Albania
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2018
In the remote mountains of northern Albania are villages where there are women who live and act like men. They have short hair, wear baggy p...
