Hukou Waterfall: The Yellow Waterfall
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 30, 2015
The Hukou Waterfall on China’s Yellow River has very modest dimensions. It’s just 30 meters wide, increasing to 50 meters during flood seaso...
Sam Kee Building: World's Narrowest Office Building
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 30, 2015
The Sam Kee Building, located on 8 West Pender Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as...
The Scale Lane Bridge in Hull
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 30, 2015
The Scale Lane Bridge is an innovative pedestrian swing bridge located in the city of Hull, England, that offers pedestrians the unique expe...
Upside Down Houses Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2015
A clichéd yet popular tourist attraction that never fails to amuse is an upside down house, with a faithfully reproduced exterior and interi...
Shigir Idol: The World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2015
In the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is a 9 feet tall wooden statue enclosed in a glass box. Called the...
Try Galileo’s Gravity Experiments From The Leaning Tower of Gingin
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2015
In the late 16th century, famed Italian scientist Galileo Galilei supposedly dropped balls of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pi...
The Multi-Layered Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2015
In the past when a cemetery ran out of space and there were no more land to expand, a new cemetery was created by layering more soil over th...
The Realmonte Salt Mine in Sicily
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2015
In the southern cost of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, lies the town of Realmonte where there is a huge underground sa...
The UFO Watchtower in Hooper, Colorado
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2015
Smack in the middle of the San Luis Valley, in Hooper, Colorado, is a ten foot tall platform called UFO Watchtower atop which one can watch ...
The Bahrain World Trade Center Has Built-In Wind Turbines
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2015
Since the last few years an increasing number of green buildings are being constructed in the developed and developing world, focusing on en...
