Chindōgu: The Japanese Art of Unuseless Inventions
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2018
You have definitely seen a chindōgu. They are those ridiculous Japanese inventions designed to solve a particular problem but are, in fact, ...
The Lighthouse That Wrecked More Ships Than it Saved
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
For more than forty years a lighthouse stood on a large anvil-shaped peninsula jutting into the Tasman Sea near Jervis Bay, in southern Aust...
Michael Pederson’s Fake Street Signs
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
Sydney-based artist Michael Pederson creates small signs with humorous messages and tucks them all around his home city at places where you ...
The Churches of Chiloé Island
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
Off the coast of Chile, a group of about thirty islands belonging to the Chiloé Archipelago make up a fiercely independent community with it...
When ‘Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass’ Was a Real Thing
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2018
This neat little box containing a pair of bellows and an assortment of pipes and other fixtures is a Tobacco Resuscitator Kit from the 18th...
Britain's Giant Hillside Chalk Figures
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2018
The Westbury White Horse carved on the hillside near Westbury in Wiltshire, England. Photo credit: tipwarm/Shutterstock.com A large portio...
How The London Bridge Was Sold to America
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2018
For centuries, children and kindergarteners have sung and danced to the tune of London Bridge is falling down , but when engineers discovere...
Galgano Guidotti And The Sword in Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2018
The story of King Arthur and his legendary sword Excalibur which he pulled out of a rock to prove his divine right to the throne is well kno...
The World’s Longest Portico
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
Portico di San Luca : Photo credit: Stefano Carnevali/Shutterstock.com Atop a forested hill, some 300 meters above the city of Bologna, st...
New Zealand’s Castaway Depots For Shipwrecked Sailors
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
An old castaway hut in the North of Antipodes Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: LawrieM/Wikimedia Before the Suez and Panama Canals open...
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...
