Galileo’s Missing Fingers
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2017
Everybody in Florence knows where Galileo Galilei lies buried. His mortal remains are in a crypt inside the famous Basilica di Santa Croce, ...
The Basement Shops of Sofia
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2017
Street vendors are a common sight in cities across the world. The inability to pay high rent, or the unavailability of cheap commercial spac...
Vilarinho da Furna: A Drowned Roman Village
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2017
Vilarinho da Furna, in the municipality of Terras de Bouro in the Braga district, in northern Portugal, was an old village that was erased f...
The Temple of The Flying Monks
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2017
That tiny orange figure levitating above this futuristic structure high on the Songshan mountain in rural Henan, China, is indeed a monk, al...
The Wild Burros of Oatman, Arizona
Anonymous
Mar 23, 2017
Positioned in the ancient part of old Route 66, in the US state of Arizona, Oatman is full of wild burros —an old Spanish term which means d...
Moroccan Wall: The Longest Minefield in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 23, 2017
You may or you may not have heard about “Western Sahara”, but if you consult Google Maps or any other modern atlas, you will notice this reg...
Japanese Holdouts: The Soldiers Who Wouldn’t Surrender
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2017
Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s surrender at the end of the Second Word War came as a blessed relief to millions of Japanese who ...
Agloe: A Fake Town That Became Real
Anonymous
Mar 19, 2017
In the 1930s, a small town named Agloe suddenly began appearing on the maps of New York. It was positioned near an unmarked dirt road that l...
The Battle for Castle Itter: The Strangest Battle of WW2
Anonymous
Mar 19, 2017
In the waning days of the Second World War, five days after Hitler shot himself in his bunker in Berlin, one of the most bizarre battle took...
Thilafushi: Maldives’s Garbage Island
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 11, 2017
What does an island with not a speck of land to spare do to get rid of hundreds of tons of garbage generated each day by its one million yea...
