Christopher McCandless' Abandoned "Magic Bus"
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2014
Those who have read Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild or watched the 2007 Sean Penn’s movie by the same name, should be able to recolle...
Photographer Captures Sprite Lightning Over Italy
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
Up in the atmosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds or cumulonimbus, sometimes mysterious electrical discharges occur known as sprites. The...
Yom Kippur, The Day When Israel Goes Car Free
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
For twenty-four hours each year, all cars goes off the road all over Israel in celebration of Yom Kippur, also known as Day of Atonement - t...
The Chandelier at Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
A magnificent chandelier hangs under the dome of the main entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the world's largest muse...
The Sand Covered Church of Skagen
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2014
About 2 km southwest of the town center of Skagen, in Denmark, is a brick church half buried in sand. Known as Old Skagen Church or The Buri...
The Crooked House of Windsor
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
While many crooked houses are deliberately built crooked for visitor attraction, the one that stands at market square in Windsor, in England...
Historian Discovers 800 Year Old Doodles in Old Books
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
Some human behavior never change, such as the urge to doodle in the margin of a book. Historian Erik Kwakkel discovered this simple truth wh...
The Surreal World of Google Earth by Clement Valla
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
Brooklyn-based artist Clement Valla scours Google Earth looking for anomalies. They aren’t visible right away, but when the viewpoint is in ...
Terrifying Glass-Bottomed Bridge Opens in China
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
China’s latest attraction is a glass-bottomed suspension bridge that straddles two rocky peaks, 300 meters apart, in Pingjiang county, in th...
35,000 Walruses Come Ashore in Alaska Due to Lack of Sea Ice
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2014
The brown patch, on the photo below, is a congregation of an estimated 35,000 walruses that came ashore on a beach near Point Lay, an Inupia...
