World's Tallest Ferris Wheel Opens in Las Vegas
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2014
The world’s tallest Ferris wheel opened on the Las Vegas Strip on March 31, 2014. Standing at 550 foot tall, the Ferris wheel named “High Ro...
Sivash Salt Lagoons in the Crimean Peninsula
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2014
The Crimean Peninsula lies between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, just south of the Ukrainian mainland, and is almost completely surroun...
The Incredible Art of Underwater Landscaping for Aquariums
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2014
Designing aquariums is serious art for folks who take part in international aquascaping contests like Russia's International Planted Aqu...
The Restaurant Atop Bei Tou Incinerator
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2014
The Bei Tou Incinerator (also spelled as Pei Tou), located in the city of Taipei in Taiwan, is a waste incinerator that burns 1,800 metric t...
The Oldest Cave Paintings in The Cave of El Castillo
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2014
The world’s oldest artwork, believed to be at least 40,800 years old, was discovered in the Cave of El Castillo, literally, “the cave of cas...
The Sunken Cemetery of Camiguin Island
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2014
Camiguin is an island province of the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about 10 kilometers off the northern coast of Mindanao. The isla...
The Principality of Sealand, or How to Start Your Own Country
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2014
The Principality of Sealand is a micronation located on an abandoned World War II fort, in the North Sea 10 km off the coast of Suffolk in E...
Tower of David, the World’s Tallest Slum
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2014
The Tower of David is an abandoned unfinished skyscraper in the center of Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, that is now home to more t...
12 Famous Shipwrecks That You Can Still Visit
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2014
There are an estimated three million undiscovered shipwrecks scattered on the oceans’ floor across the world, some of which are thousands of...
Hong Kong’s Outdoor Escalators
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2014
In one of Hong Kong's smartest residential area called Mid-levels, the public is served by an unusual form of transport - the longest ou...
