Kamikatsu: The Town That Produces No Trash
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2018
Do you find separating trash by paper and plastic a chore? Then think about the residents of Kamikatsu, a small town in the mountains of Shi...
Ko Panyi: Thailand’s Floating Village
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2018
Aerial view of Ko Panyi, fishing village in Phang Nga Province, Thailand. Photo credit: roadlessandy/instagram In a sheltered bay in south...
Ross Island: The Ghostly Ruins of a Former Penal Colony
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2018
Abandoned colonial architecture covered with big tree roots at Ross island. Photo credit: CRS PHOTO/Shutterstock For more than eighty yea...
Transnistria, The Country That Doesn’t Exist
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2018
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, a thin sliver of land on Moldova’s eastern border with Ukraine broke apart from its parent c...
Yakutsk: The Coldest City in the World
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2018
Photo credit: Slava Stepanov There are plenty of regions in Russia that can claim to be very remote and very cold, but none as extreme as...
The Blood Stained Ceilings of Kyoto’s Temples
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2018
The Fushimi Castle in Kyoto was one of the last places of action during the “age of warring states”—a period in Japanese history, stretching...
Canaries As Poisonous Gas Detectors
Kaushik Patowary
May 16, 2018
This peculiar device, in the collection of the Science Museum in South Kensington, London, looks like a tiny gas chamber a movie villain w...
Makhunik: The Village of Dwarves
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2018
In a remote corner in Iran’s South Khorasan Province, near its border with Afghanistan, is a village that, until about a century ago, was in...
Saint Catherine's Monastery And The World’s Oldest Library
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2018
Deep in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, in a region of wilderness made up of granite rock and rugged mountains, lies the town of Saint Catheri...
The Forgotten Islands of The Wadden Sea
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2018
Just off the northwest coast of Germany, in the North Frisian Wadden Sea, are a series of ten extremely low-lying islets known as Halligen o...
Exercise Tiger: The Disastrous D-Day Rehearsal That Cost 800 Lives
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2018
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied soldiers stormed into the beaches of northern France in what became the larg...
World War II’s Other Iconic Photo: Raising A Flag Over The Reichstag
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2018
When photographer Joe Rosenthal snapped the picture of five US marines and a Navy sailor raising the American flag over the battle-scarred J...
Richardson Olmsted Complex: A Historic Insane Asylum Turned Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2018
The Richardson Olmsted Complex in Buffalo, the United States, is a modern name for the Buffalo State Hospital, which itself was originally c...
The Longest Straight Line Land And Sea Route
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2018
The red line on this world map looks all curvy, but in reality is a perfectly straight line. Remember, the earth is spherical, so any strai...
The Lost City of Cahokia
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2018
A thousand years before Columbus's men would land on the shores of America, a new city was sprouting on the floodplains of modern-day St...
China’s Bicycle Graveyards
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2018
Over the last few years, the bicycle-sharing phenomenon has taken the world by storm, especially in China, where—according to one report —th...
Pop Culture Dystopia
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2018
Dystopian future is a favorite trope among movie directors, writers and artists alike. Decaying landscape, overgrown bushes, and crumbling r...
Toxic Art: The Almaden Mercury Fountain
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2018
At the Joan Miró Foundation, a contemporary museum on Montjuïc hill in Barcelona, is a fascinatingly deadly piece of art—a fountain of mercu...
Strings And Knots: Inca’s Cryptic Writing System
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2018
While Geoffrey Chaucer was writing The Canterbury Tales in late 14th century, the Inca scholars high up in the Andes were struggling to put...
The Soccer Stadium Lying On Two Hemispheres
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2018
This Friday, two local Brazilian football clubs—Santos FC and Macapá—will face each other at the Estádio Milton Corrêa, a multi-purpose sta...
