The Negro of Banyoles
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2018
It’s one thing to keep the mummified body of a thousand year old pharaoh or a monk in a glass case in a museum, and another to stuff the dea...
Tianducheng: A Fake Paris in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2018
These two photographs of the Eiffel Tower look very similar, but they aren’t the same, which you can probably tell from their different surr...
Netherlandish Proverbs
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2018
Hanging at the Gemäldegalerie art museum in Berlin, Germany, is an unusual painting. Measuring 64 inches by 46 inches, this 16th century oil...
London Railings Made From World War 2 Stretchers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 17, 2018
Many housing estates throughout London are surrounded by black steel and mesh railings with peculiar notches around the edges. Although at f...
The Legacy of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2018
A two-hour bumpy ride from Uyuni across Bolivia’s high plains will take you to the small town of San Vicente. At the entrance to this remote...
Fort Conger: Robert Peary’s Arctic Hut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2018
In 1899, when famous arctic explorer Robert Peary reached Ellesmere Island, in Canada, he found the ruins of a hut erected by a previous arc...
The Witches’ Market of La Paz, Bolivia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2018
Along a narrow cobblestone street in an old quarter of La Paz , in Boliva, old women dressed in traditional Andean garb of colorful ankle-le...
Elbphilharmonie: A Spectacular New Concert Hall in Hamburg
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2018
Exactly one year ago, on January 11, 2017, a new concert hall opened in Hamburg, Germany. Like a ship on dry dock, the new glassy constructi...
Athabasca Sand Dunes
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2018
Stretching for approximately 100 kilometers along the southern edge of Lake Athabasca, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, are some of...
The Soledar Salt Mines
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2018
Some 250 million years ago, a part of Ukraine was under a shallow ocean. When the ocean dried up, it left behind a huge deposit of salt whic...
