Lunar Crater National Natural Landmark
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2015
The Lunar Crater National Natural Landmark is a volcanic field located 110 km east-northeast of Tonopah in Nye County, in central Nevada. Th...
St. Louis City Museum in an Abandoned Shoe Factory
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2015
The City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, isn’t really a museum. It’s actually a 600,000 square-foot playground housed in a former shoe factor...
The Gaudy South Indian Houses That Inspired Ettore Sottsass
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2015
Tiruvannamalai, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a small town of 144,000-odd people with a strange taste in architecture. The hou...
Etang de Montady: The Drained Pond of Montady
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2015
If you look up Montady on Google Maps, in the department of Hérault, in southern France, you will see a strange agricultural field. Long lin...
Abandoned Tempelhof Airport Now Berlin’s Largest Park
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2015
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin was once the largest and busiest in Germany, and one of Europe's iconic airports of the pre-World War II...
Sumo Wrestlers Scare Babies at Nakizumo Festival
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2015
Every spring, a fierce competition takes place between enormous sumo wrestlers, but they aren’t wrestling each other to the ground. They'...
Scaly-foot Gastropod: The Snail With an Armor of Iron
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2015
Deep in the Indian Ocean, near extremely hot hydrothermal vents, where scalding hot water erupts in tall, blacky columns, lives an extraordi...
Zaatari Refugee Camp: A City of its Own
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2015
When civil war erupted in Syria in 2011, more than three and a half million Syrians fled the country to the neighboring countries of Turkey,...
A-maze-ing Laughter in Vancouver
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2015
A-maze-ing Laughter is a collection of 14 enormous bronze statues depicting a shirtless guy laughing hysterically. It was installed in 2009 ...
Dampfmaschinenhaus: A Mosque Shaped Pump House in Potsdam
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2015
The Dampfmaschinenhaus at the Neustädter Havelbucht in Potsdam, Germany, looks like a Turkish mosque but is actually a pumping station in di...
