The Fortress of Mimoyecques
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2017
About twenty kilometers from the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, near the hamlet of Mimoyecques, in northern France, lies a once-secret undergroun...
The Colorful Mansions of El Alto
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2017
Spread out across the Bolivian highlands, at 4,000 meters, the city of El Alto is predominantly ochre-red, with thousands of low, matchbox-l...
Isa lake: The Two-Ocean Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 27, 2017
The Isa Lake Viewpoint, located about 8 miles east of the Old Faithful Area along the Grand Loop Road in Yellowstone National Park, is not a...
Project Habakkuk: Britain’s Secret Ship Made of Ice
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2017
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and no time in history was as desperate as the time when the world’s most powerful nations were...
Pioneertown: A Movie Set That Became A Real Town
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2017
In 1946, a bunch of Hollywood legends including Roy Rogers, Dick Curtis, and Russell Hayden —tired of travelling to far-off locations to sho...
The Mysterious Gotland Grooves
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2017
Scattered throughout the island of Gotland, in the middle of the Baltic Sea, are thousands of stones with strange grooves or furrows cut int...
The Crypt of Civilization
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 22, 2017
Under the foundation of Phoebe Hearst Memorial Hall at Oglethorpe University in Georgia, the United States, is a large room, that was sealed...
Postman’s Park’s Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2017
Tucked away in a quiet corner of Postman's Park in central London, easily overlooked, lies a remarkable memorial. Under a wooden canopy,...
Sarajevo Tunnel: The Tunnel of Hope
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2017
Five meters below the runway of Sarajevo's airport runs a short stretch of tunnel that was dug out during the Siege of Sarajevo to bring...
Elgin Marbles: A Piece of The Parthenon in London
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2017
Should a museum keep artistic treasures it acquired under dubious circumstances a long time ago, or should it return them to their country o...
