The Sacred Crocodiles of Bazoule
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2018
Bazoule, in Burkina Faso, is a sprawling lakeside village around 30 kilometers from the capital Ouagadougou, with a very unique tradition—fo...
River Farset: Belfast’s Forgotten River
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2018
The city of Belfast in Northern Ireland looked very different when it was a thriving industrial city in the 18th century. A large river flow...
Providence Canyon: The Man-made Natural Wonder
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2018
Approximately 150 miles southwest of Atlanta, in the US state of Georgia, is a network of gorges and massive gullies lovingly called Georgia...
The Oldest Bridge In The World
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2018
The ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, located approximately midway between the modern cities of Baghdad and Basrah, in southern Iraq, is one o...
The Kome Cave Houses And Cannibalism
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2018
Photo credit: Amada44/Wikimedia These smooth walled, well maintained, igloo-shaped mud houses near the village of Mateka, in Lesotho, beli...
How The British Fought Fog With Runways of Fire
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2018
During the Second World War, British pilots were fighting more than the German Messerschmitts. They were also fighting against the weather—m...
Afghanistan’s Last Buddhist Relics
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2018
It’s hard to believe that Afghanistan, a country torn by war and religious extremism, was once a peaceful Buddhist nation. Pilgrims from all...
Lake George: The Lake That Vanishes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2018
About 40 kilometers north-east of Canberra, in Australia, right next to the Federal Highway is a large lake, but you might not always see it...
The Burning Mountain of New South Wales, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2018
Approximately 224 km north of Sydney, just off the New England Highway, in New South Wales, Australia, is a hill that has been burning for t...
The Niagara Gorge Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2018
Before the Niagara river plunges along the Canada–United States border to create the mesmerizing Niagara Falls, it cuts a 11 km long gorge t...
Landscaping In The Back Of Japanese Mini Pickup Trucks
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2018
The Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors organizes an annual landscaping contest, where landscaping contractors from around Japan arriv...
The Hill With The Longest Name
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2018
Photo credit: itravelNZ/Flickr Near Porangahau in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, stands an insubstantial hill with a very substant...
Phlegraean Fields: The Italian Supervolcano Ready To Blow
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2018
Just to the west of Naples, in Italy, is an area riddled with craters and cones. Jets of steam and sulfurous gases vent continuously from fi...
The Ancient Iranian Salt Mummies
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2018
In northwestern Iran, near the villages of Hamzehli, Mehrabad and Chehrabad, in Zanjan province, is a large salt dome protruding into the su...
The Canadian Town Called Asbestos
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2018
The asbestos mine in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Photo credit: Denis-Carl Robidoux/Flickr At the heart of the triangle made by the three Can...
The Jefferson Grid
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2018
The vast majority of America’s western land is divided into a lattice-work of farms, towns and forests. This grid pattern was first propos...
The Meteorite That Crashed Into A Car
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2018
The Peekskill meteorite car sitting at a collector’s garage in Peekskill. Photo credit: Ryan Thompson/Flickr On October 9, 1992, a brill...
Sungbo's Eredo: Africa’s Biggest Monument Nobody Has Heard Of
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2018
Deep in the Nigerian rainforest, there was once an immense kingdom surrounded by a huge earthen wall and moat. Built during the Middle Ages,...
The Boneyard of Colon Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2018
The Colon Cemetery in Havana, Cuba, named after Christopher Columbus, is well known for its many elaborately sculpted memorials and mausoleu...
The Valley of Names
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2018
For over seventy years, people have been driving out in their RVs to a remote desert area near the city of Yuma, in the US state of Arizona,...
