Heligoland: the German Island the British Tried to Destroy
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2015
At the end of the Second World War, the British Army had a huge surplus of ammunition and explosives that started to give them ideas. It was...
Which Airports are Farthest From the City They Serve?
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2015
A city always begins with one airport, usually located outside the city limits to allow the city some space to grow, but still close enough ...
Manik & Ratan’s Pet Dragon Interacts With Everyday Objects
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2015
“Everything we know about you guys is wrong,” said Hiccup in the DreamWorks Animation movie How to Train Your Dragon . “They're not what...
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...
