The Closes of Edinburgh
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2017
The Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, consisted originally of the main street, now known as the Royal Mile, and a large number of small alley...
The Mysterious Erdstalls Tunnels
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2017
Across Europe, there are hundreds of underground tunnels that lead to nowhere and about which no historic records have ever been found. They...
The Art of Deliberate Imperfection
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2017
Some people are perfectionists, going great lengths and through punishing routines to achieve the perfect figure, the perfect score, the ini...
Ytterby: The Village That Chemists Love
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2017
What do the following ten chemical elements have in common? Yttrium Ytterbium Terbium Erbium Gadolinium Thulium Scandium Holmium D...
Elche, The City of Palm Trees
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2017
In the city of Elche, in Spain, there is a large grove of palm trees that’s the only one of its kind in Europe, and one of the largest palm ...
The Stilt Walking Shepherds of Landes
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2017
The Landes region of southwestern France, bordering the Bay of Biscay, is covered by a large pine forest. In fact, it’s the largest ‘maritim...
The Silo Art Trail in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2017
For more than a hundred years, grain silos doting the plains across the Wimmera-Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, have defined the state...
Wooden Churches of Maramures
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2017
In the Maramureș region of northern Romania are a group of almost one hundred Orthodox churches built between the 17th and the 19th centurie...
Castel del Monte, Andria
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2017
On top of a small hill overlooking the comune of Andria, in the Italian region Apulia, stands one of the strangest looking castle. This 13th...
Traboule: The Secret Alleyways of Lyon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2017
Below is a satellite image showing the old quarters of the French city of Lyon, by the river Saone. As you can see, there are a couple of st...
