Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2014
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the largest building in the world dedicated to the containment and preservati...
Showing posts from September, 2014
Plimoth Plantation: A Living Museum of a 17th Century English Colony in America
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2014
In the early 17th century a group of separatists, who came to be known as the Pilgrim Fathers, fled the volatile political environment in En...
The Pier of Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2014
Old Orchard Beach is a seven-mile stretch of beach located on the inner side of Saco Bay on the Atlantic Ocean, in Maine, the US. It is a po...
Serbia’s Dry Bridge: A Bridge Without a River
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2014
The Bega River runs for about 250 km from the Poiana Rusca Mountains in Romania and into Serbia where it flows into the Tisa river near Tite...
Devil's Kettle: A Mysterious Waterfalls
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2014
The Devil's Kettle is a puzzling geological phenomenon located inside Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota, in USA, just off the N...
Miniature Dioramas by Satoshi Araki
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2014
Tokyo based artist Satoshi Araki creates miniature dioramas of chaotic cityscapes that are the result of urban decay or warfare, with amazi...
The Disappearing Glaciers of Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2014
Africa is typically isn’t the place that inspires visions of ice and glaciers, yet surprisingly, there are a number of glaciers in Africa, a...
Darra Adam Khel: The Village of Illegal Gun Manufacturers
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2014
Darra Adam Khel is a small village in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, located between the city of Peshawar and Kohat. An unkemp...
The Old Man of The Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2014
In 1886, when geologist Joseph S. Diller was making the first geological study of Oregon’s Crater Lake, in the US, he noticed a tree stump c...
Lark Quarry Dinosaur Stampede
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2014
About 95 million years ago, a herd of two-legged dinosaurs, some as small as chickens and some about the size of emus came to drink at the m...
The Last Turf Church of Hof, Iceland
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2014
Hof, in Öræfi, is a small village in southeast Iceland, approximately 30 kilometers east of Vatnajökull, and 20 kilometers south of the Skaf...
Amelia Earhart’s Lighthouse on Howland Island
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2014
Howland Island is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about 3,100 km southwest of Ho...
The Kopjes of Serengeti
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2014
Serengeti is a vast plain of grassland, woods and swamps, nearly 30,000 square kilometers, that stretches from north-western Tanzania into s...
The Glittering Mausoleum of Shah-e-Cheragh
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2014
Shah-e-Cheragh is a funerary monument and mosque located in the city of Shiraz, in Iran, where lies the tomb of Amir Ahmad and his brother M...
Klaksvik, Faroe Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2014
Nestled at the foot of two lofty mountain ridges, connected by a low-lying area where two inlets meet, Klaksvik is the second-largest city i...
Karlu Karlu - The Devil's Marbles
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2014
Devil’s Marbles or Karlu Karlu, as they are known by the local Warumungu Aboriginals, are a collection of massive granite boulders strewn ac...
Soak in Wine, Green Tea, Coffee or Sake at Yunessun Spa Resort
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2014
Bathing in water is such old school. At Yunessun Spa Resort in Hakone, Japan, you can soak yourself in a variety of unorthodox liquids such ...
Lake Amadeus, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
Lake Amadeus is a huge salt lake located the southwest corner of Australia's Northern Territory, about 50 km north of Uluru or Ayers Roc...
World’s Longest Pedestrian Suspension Bridge in Russia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
The world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge opened this summer in Sochi National Park, Russia. Located on the extreme corner of the Nat...
365 Postcards for Ants by Lorraine Loots
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
Everyday, Cape Town-based artist Lorraine Loots creates a miniature painting for her ongoing project “365 Postcards for Ants.” Using paint ...
St Michael's Mount of Cornwall
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
St. Michael's Mount is a tidal island located about 360 meters off the coast of Mount's Bay coast of Cornwall, England. Perched on t...
Chinese City Opens Sidewalk For Mobile Phone Users
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2014
Walking the streets in any major city today is a peril for pedestrians, not from cars, but from fellow pedestrians who are too engrossed on ...
The Sand Dunes of Maspalomas
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2014
The Dunes of Maspalomas is a spectacular 4 square km field of sand located in the tourist town of Maspalomas in the south of the island of G...
The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania is a tomb located on the road between the cities of Cherchell and Algiers, in Algeria. It is the final res...
The Fence of Carnegie Mellon University: The Most Painted Object in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University has a low concrete fence in the middle of its campus. For the last 70 years, students have been ...
Bloemencorso Zundert Flower Parade 2014
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Zundert, a small town in the Netherlands located at the Belgian border, hosts the world’s biggest flower parade, featuring twenty floats of ...
Kiss The Blarney Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2014
Near the village of Blarney, in Ireland, about 8 km north-west of the small city of Cork, lies the Blarney Castle. At the top of the castle ...
The Strange Beauty of Abandoned Duck Blinds by Dave Jordano
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2014
Along the banks of the Mississippi River on the solid ice, duck hunters set up blinds, a cover device designed to conceal, and at the same t...
The Lighthouse of Strombolicchio
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2014
Strombolicchio (or tiny Stromboli) is a sea stack of volcanic origin located about 2 km to the northeast of the island of Stromboli in the T...
Goree Island: Senegal’s Slave Trade Center
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2014
Gorée is a small island located off the coast of Dakar, in Senegal, about 2 km out into the sea. It was the site of one of the earliest Euro...
The Cotton Tree in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2014
In the old part of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, at the center of a roundabout surrounded by a concrete fence stands an enormo...
Miracle Village: A Community of Sex Offenders
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2014
Deep in sugar cane county of south Florida, in the US, on the edge of the everglades, about two miles from the nearest town, is a community ...
The Painted Houses of The Ndebeles
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2014
The Ndebeles are an African ethnic group living in South Africa and Zimbabwe known for their artistic talent, especially with regard to thei...
A Prada Store in The Middle of The Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 9, 2014
In a desolate strip, just off U.S. Route 90 in West Texas, about 60 km northwest of the city of Marfa, lies a tiny Prada store. On the front...
Petoskey Stones of Michigan
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 9, 2014
Petoskey stones are composed of fossilized skeletons of Hexagonaria percarinata , a type of coral from coral reefs that once covered all of ...
Passage du Gois: A Tidal Causeway in France
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2014
Passage du Gois is a submersible causeway in the Bay of Bourgneuf, linking the island of Noirmoutier to the mainland in the department of Ve...
The Colossal Stepped Spillway of Robert-Bourassa Reservoir
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2014
The Robert-Bourassa Reservoir is located in northern Quebec, in Canada. It was created in the mid-1970s by impounding the La Grande River to...
The Kasubi Tombs of Uganda
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2014
The burial tombs of the Buganda Kings on Kasubi hill, in Kampala district, in Uganda, are a major spiritual center for the Baganda people wh...
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2014
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a submarine ridge located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, that wraps around the globe for more than 65,000 ...
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef of Discarded Tires
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2014
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. Thi...
Don Juan Pond: The Saltiest Body of Water on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2014
Don Juan Pond is a small, ankle-deep lake located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, nestled in Wright Valley between the Asgard Mou...
Longleat Hedge Maze: The Longest in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2014
Longleat Hedge Maze is located in the garden of the English stately home of Longleat, situated adjacent to the village of Horningsham and ne...
Photos of Limestone Blasting by Naoya Hatakeyama
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2014
These pictures are part of a series called “Blast” taken by Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, who used remote-control cameras to captu...
Cryoconite Holes on Glaciers
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2014
Sometimes the surface of glaciers exhibit peculiar water filled cylindrical holes of varying sizes. At the bottom of these holes, there is u...
Parting of The Waters: A Creek That Flows Into Two Oceans
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2014
Within the Teton Wilderness area of Bridger-Teton National Forest, in Wyoming, USA, lies a very unremarkable creek with a remarkable hydrolo...
Intricate Ice Crack Patterns on Lake Puma Yumco
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2014
Lake Puma Yumco, located on the Tibetan Plateau, is one of the most remote lakes in the world. The lake is 32 km long and 13 km wide and is ...
Mocona Falls: A 3 km Waterfall That Runs Parallel to The River
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2014
Iguazu Falls may be the most popular waterfalls in Argentina, but Mocona Falls take the crown for the most unique. Mocona does not follow th...
The Guano Covered Island of Grassholm
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 2, 2014
Grassholm is a small uninhabited island, just 200 meters across, located 13 kilometers off the southwestern Pembrokeshire coast in Wales. Th...
