Banaba: A Tropical Paradise Destroyed by Mining
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2018
In the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii, there is a small island named Banaba belonging to a scattered group of is...
Robert Peary’s Meteorite And Minik
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2018
Many historical figures are celebrated for achieving great things but conveniently forgotten of all the terrible things they did to other pe...
The Mountain That Japan Hid From The World
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2018
Photo credit: 663highland/Wikimedia Inside the Shikotsu-Toya National Park, in the island of Hokkaidō, not far from the active stratovolca...
Stott Hall: The Farm in The Middle of The Highway
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2018
Driving along the M62 motorway, on the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire between junctions 22 and 23, motorists are greeted with an un...
The Treetop Squatters of Hambach Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2018
For the past six years, some men and women have been living in a small 250-acre forest on the outskirts of Cologne, near the town of Jülich ...
Corippo: The Village That Wants to Become a Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2018
The tiny mountain village of Corippo, perched on the Swiss Alps, is much more than a village. It is an autonomous municipality with its own ...
Frankfurt’s Old Quarter Reconstructed 70 Years After The War
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2018
The DomRömer Quarter in the heart of the old town of Frankfurt, Germany, has received a new breath of life after the controversial Technical...
Gliwice Radio Station, Where World War 2 Began
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2018
On the evening of August 31, 1939, as the last rays of the setting sun lingered on the top of the giant wooden mast towering over the then G...
The Bächle of Freiburg: The Mediaeval Gutters That Became Recreational Hotspots
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2018
The German city of Freiburg in the edge of Black Forest has a curious attraction—little streams of clear water flowing through the city in o...
Smith Mansion: The House That Killed its Builder
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2018
For over thirty years a five story rickety wooden structure with long undulating staircases and haphazardly protruding balconies have been s...
Thailand’s Aircraft-Less Aircraft Carrier
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2018
The aircraft carrier is the ultimate symbol of military strength. Enormously large and with a full fleet of combat aircrafts on its deck, th...
The World’s Largest Waterfalls Are Underwater
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2018
Victoria Falls in southern Africa is often regarded as the world’s largest waterfalls. “Regarded”, because there is no standard method to me...
How War Marooned 15 Ships in The Suez Canal For Eight Years
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2018
The Arabs and the Jews have never got along. Since the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism towards the end of the 19th century, the two gro...
Northern Cyprus’s Giant Mountain Flag
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2018
From any high point in Nicosia, the capital and the largest city on the island of Cyprus, one can see a giant flag of Turkey-occupied Northe...
The Landlocked Navy of Mongolia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2018
Many landlocked countries with no access to the open ocean maintain navies, which might seem odd at first. But once you realize that aside f...
Null Island: The Fictional Place Created by Digital Mapping Error
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2018
A few hundred miles off the west coast of Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea, a lonely weather buoy bobs up and down the ocean waves. Code named...
The Collyer Brothers: History’s Worst Hoarders
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2018
In the heart of Harlem, in New York City, at the northwest corner of 128th Street and 5th Avenue, lies a small rectangular lot. A sign from ...
The Horseback Fishermen of Oostduinkerke
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2018
On the western end of Belgium’s short coastline, about 20 km east of Dunkirk, France, is a place called Oostduinkerke (meaning “East Dunkirk...
The Cave-Dwelling Crocodiles of Gabon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2018
Ten years ago, a team of scientists went exploring into the rainforest of Gabon, and ventured into a cave. In the pitch-black, bat-infested...
Queen Elizabeth’s Childhood Playhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2018
In the garden of Windsor’s Royal Lodge in Berkshire, England, tucked away from public view stands a miniature thatched cottage with white-wa...
