Árbol de la Noche Victoriosa, Mexico City
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2024
In the Popotla neighborhood of Mexico City, there is an ancient cypress tree called Árbol de la Noche Victoriosa (Tree of the Victorious Nig...
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Pyramids of Anlong County, China
Kaushik Patowary
May 20, 2024
These photographs of a mountain range in Anlong County, located in southwest China's Guizhou Province, have captivated netizens. Recentl...
The Stone Stele of Yangshan Quarry
Kaushik Patowary
May 16, 2024
In the hills outside the old capital of Nanjing in southeastern China lies the ancient stone quarry of Yangshan. Worked since the time of th...
The Ingush Towers of North Caucasia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2024
The rugged terrains of North Caucasia, nestled within the Russian Federation, is dotted with ancient towers that stand as silent sentinels t...
Nerodimka River Bifurcation
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2024
The Nerodimka river in the Nerodime region of Kosovo is the only river in Europe that drains into two different seas, a phenomenon known as ...
Ashkelon Dog Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2024
About 50 km south of Tel Aviv, on the Mediterranean coast, near the ancient city of Ashkelon, archaeologists from the 1985 Leon Levi Expedit...
Musée des Plans-Reliefs
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2024
In the Hôtel des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, is a museum dedicated to detailed military models of important towns ...
Barkway Carriage Wash
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2024
What looks like a pool of stagnant water by the side of the road in Royston, in Hertfordshire, is really the oldest carriage wash in the wor...
Glienicke Bridge: The Bridge Of Spies
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2023
In the Wannsee district of Berlin, Germany, there is a brief bridge spanning the Havel River, connecting the German capital to Potsdam. Hist...
The Divided Church of Gmünd
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2023
Near the town of Gmünd in the Austrian state of Carinthia stands the Divided Church (Geteilte Kirche am Kreuzbichl), so called because it is...
The Logan Rock of Treen
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2023
On the edge of the cliffs overlooking the English Channel, on a headland one mile south of Treen, in Cornwall, England, is a famous rocking ...
Sadd el-Kafara: The Oldest Dam in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2023
About 40 km southeast of Cairo, close to the town of Helwan, lie the ruins of the Sadd-el-Kafara, a large embankment dam built approximately...
A Piece of Sputnik in Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2023
In the early 1960s, before the Soviets sent Yuri Gagarin to space, they began their Vostok programme with a series of unmanned test flight...
Holmdel Horn Antenna: Where The Big Bang Was Discovered
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2023
Physicists and astronomers believe that the universe began with the Big Bang—a cataclysmic event that occurred roughly 13 billion years ago ...
The Warsaw Radio Mast
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2023
Some radio transmitters are built to great heights in order to reach audiences far and wide. In fact, nine out of ten structures taller than...
Rozabal Shrine: The Tomb of Jesus
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2023
In the Khanyar area of Kashmir, India, in downtown Srinagar, there is an old shrine—a modest stone building with a traditional Kashmiri mult...
The Shipwrecks of Fylde Coast
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2023
The Fylde coast in western Lancashire have seen some of the foulest weather in England’s northwest coast. The area around Blackpool is in pa...
F60 Overburden Conveyor Bridge: The Horizontal Eiffel Tower
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2023
About 60 km north of Dresden, in Lichterfeld-Schacksdorf in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany, lies a steel behemoth. It’s a gigantic over...
Falowiec: The Wave Building of Gdańsk
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2023
In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, a series of peculiarly shaped apartment blocks were constructed in the Polish city of Gdańsk. They we...
Purton Hulks: The Ship Graveyard
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2023
One of the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain was created not by accident, but by the deliberate sinking of tens of old trawler and ...
