8 of the Most Scenic Train Routes
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2013
In this day and age, the act of traveling is really considered more of a means than an end. However, something is lost when we look at it th...
The Impossible Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2013
At the turn of the 20th century, during the great era of railways, each city on the western seaboard of the North American continent needed ...
The Rock Islands of Palau
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2013
Palau is an archipelago of about 250 islands, located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is its own country – the Republic of Palau, although ...
Soviet War Memorial at Mamayev Kurgan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2013
The southern Russian city of Stalingrad, later renamed Volgograd, witnessed one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. The heav...
The World's Steepest Cogwheel Railway at Mount Pilatus
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2013
The Pilatus railway in Switzerland connects Alpnachstad on Lake Lucerne, to a terminus near the summit of Mount Pilatus at an altitude of 2,...
Opal – The Most Spectacular Gemstone
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2013
Opal is one of the most beautiful of gemstones. These stones can flash every color of the spectrum with a brilliance that can even surpass t...
The Twelve Apostles, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2013
The Twelve Apostles is a collection of dramatic limestone stacks that rises up to 45 meters, 7 km off the shore of the Port Campbell Nationa...
Brusio Spiral Viaduct in Switzerland
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2013
The Brusio spiral viaduct is a single track nine-arched stone spiral railway viaduct located in Brusio, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzer...
Pygmy Marmoset - The Smallest Monkey
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 22, 2013
The pygmy marmoset is a tiny primate that is native to rainforests of the western Amazon Basin in South America. At just 100 grams, the pygm...
The Octopus Tree of Oregon
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 22, 2013
The Octopus Tree is a massive Sitka spruce located a few hundred feet from Cape Meares Lighthouse on the Oregon Coast, in the U.S. The tree ...
