Jamestown: The First English Settlement in America
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2017
More than a hundred years after Christopher Columbus’ historic voyage in 1492, a team of roughly one hundred colonists left England in late ...
Cerro Rico: The Mountain That Eats Men
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2017
High in the Andes, in southwest Bolivia, towering above one of the highest cities in the world, stands the cone-shaped peak of Cerro Rico —t...
Giant Hand Sculptures Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2017
The other day, a pair of giant hands appeared rising out of a canal in Venice, as if to support the sides of the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. It was a...
The Ravens of The Tower of London
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2017
For many centuries, the historic Tower of London, on the north bank of the River Thames, has been guarded by ravens. These winged creatures ...
The Stone Labyrinths of Bolshoi Zayatsky Island
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2017
Bolshoi Zayatsky is a small island belonging to the Solovetsky archipelago in the Onega Bay of the White Sea, in Russia. The island is home ...
Seoul’s Floating Skygarden
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2017
A kilometer-long section of a disused overpass in the heart of Seoul has been converted into an urban nursery with more than 24,000 potted p...
The Underground Homes of Matmata, Tunisia
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2017
A lot of communities around the world, particularly those in hot climates, traditionally live in caves to escape the heat. The Berbers of Ma...
The Turtle Graveyard of Sipadan
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2017
Back in the early 1980s, the famous ocean explorer Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau and his team paid a visit to the island of Sipadan, off the...
The Lava Tubes of Undara Volcanic National Park
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2017
In the vast savannah of Australia’s North Queensland, 300 km southwest from the city of Cairns, lies the Undara Volcanic National Park where...
The Missile at Madison Quarry Lake
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2017
Standing in the middle of an old and abandoned limestone quarry in Madison, in the US state of Alabama, is a 53-foot-tall nuclear missile. T...
