Casa Mila in Barcelona, Spain
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2013
Casa Milà, popularly known as ‘La Pedrera’, looks like an artistic piece of modern architecture, but it’s not. This unusual building of undu...
Airport Runway Becomes Parking Lot for Hurricane Damaged Vehicles
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2013
Tens of thousands of vehicles damaged by Superstorm Sandy are being temporarily stored on runways and taxiways at Calverton Executive Airpar...
Altered Street Signs by Clet Abraham
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2013
For two years, French street artist Clet Abraham was sneaking out into the night and pasting removable stickers onto street signs throughout...
Decorated Mud Houses of Tiébélé, Burkina Faso
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2013
In the south of Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in west Africa, near the border with Ghana lies a small, circular village of about 1.2 he...
Okunoshima Rabbit Island
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2013
Ōkunoshima is a small island located in the Inland Sea of Japan between Hiroshima and Shikoku. During World War II the island used to be a t...
“Bridge to Nowhere” in Whanganui National Park, New Zealand
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2013
One of the most visited attractions in Whanganui National Park, New Zealand, is the “Bridge to Nowhere” - an abandoned and isolated concret...
Panmunjom, The Only Place Where Tourists Can Get Shot
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 15, 2013
Panmunjom is located in the most sensitive area of Korea's demilitarised zone. It’s the only tourist destination where visitors are requ...
Amsterdam, the City of Bicycles
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 14, 2013
Amsterdam is one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world, with an estimated 800,000 bikes within the capital. In contrast, the city...
The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 14, 2013
Roopkund is a glacial lake located at an altitude of about 5,029 metres in Uttarakhand, a state in India. When the ice melts, hundreds of hu...
Runit Dome: The Radioactive Trash Can on Enewetak Atoll
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2013
Since World War II, the United States has conducted over 1,000 nuclear tests mostly at Nevada Test Site and the Pacific Proving Grounds in ...
