Jison-in: Japan’s Boob Temple
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2016
Situated at the base of Mount Koya, in the small town of Kudoyama, in Wakayama prefecture, the Jison-in temple looks looks no different than...
The Catacombs of Odessa
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2016
Underneath the city of Odessa, in Ukraine, is an extensive network of tunnels believed to be the largest catacomb system in the world. Large...
The Wrecked Bomber of Huu Tiep Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2016
On the night of December 27, 1972, a US bomber B-52 was knocked out of the sky during a bombing raid on Hanoi, Vietnam. A part of the wrecka...
Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice’s Flooded Bookstore
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2016
During the winter months, Venice suffers from bouts of periodic flooding, known as acqua alta , caused by exceptionally high tides that occu...
Bighorn Medicine Wheel
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2016
Some Native American cultures built large stone circles by laying stones in a particular pattern on the ground. They are known as “medicine ...
Kofun: Japan's Keyhole-Shaped Burial Mounds
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2016
The landscape around Kansai, in southern-central Japan, especially around Osaka and Nara, is dotted by curious keyhole-shaped mounds surroun...
The Orange Rocks of Bay of Fires
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
The Bay of Fires, on the northeastern coast of Tasmania in Australia, is a large bay that extends for about 30 km from Binalong Bay in the s...
The Lost Villages of St. Lawrence
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
In 1954, the United States and Canada jointly embarked on a massive engineering project that involved the creation of a 600-km-long navigabl...
The Brown Dog Affair
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2016
In a secluded spot near the Old English Garden, in London’s Battersea Park, is a small bronze statue of a terrier. The statue was erected in...
Siq, Petra’s Spectacular Gorge
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2016
The ancient city of Petra, located in the heart of the mountainous desert of southern Jordan, had different approaches in the past. One poss...
