Wycliffe Well: The UFO Capital of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2015
The self proclaimed “UFO capital of Australia” lies on Stuart Highway in Northern Territory, between the towns of Tennant Creek and Alice Sp...
The Salt Lake Tuz of Turkey
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2015
Lake Tuz, or Tuz Golu in Turkish, is a saline lake located in a huge area in the arid central plateau of Turkey, about 105 km northeast of K...
Yoo Hyun’s Photorealistic Paper Cut Portraits
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2015
Armed with only an X-acto knife and tweezers, Korean artist Yoo Hyun carves intricate portraits of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe...
Fulgurite: What Happens When Lightning Strikes Sand
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2015
A single bolt of lightning can deliver 5 gigajoule of energy enough to power an average U.S. household for more than a month. When such a ...
The Story of Hachiko, The Loyal Dog
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2015
Just outside one of the five exits of Tokyo's Shibuya Station is a bronze statue of a dog named Hachiko. It is one of the most popular m...
The Wooden Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2015
The royal estate of Kolomenskoye runs all the way along the right-bank of the River Moscow from Kolomenskaya to Kashirskaya metro stations a...
Titan Clydebank: An Industrial Crane, Now Scotland’s Unique Attraction
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2015
On the banks of River Clyde, in the town of Clydebank, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, a towering cantilever crane rises. A hundred years ...
The Great Man-Made River of Libya
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2015
One of the biggest civilian development project that Libya’s ex-president Muammar Gaddafi undertook during his forty-two-year rule was the G...
Kramerbrucke: The Inhabited Bridge of Erfurt
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2015
The Krämerbrücke or the Merchant’s Bridge is an inhabited bridge in the German city of Erfurt that spans the Breitstrom, a branch of Gera Ri...
The Hippie Town of Christiania
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2015
In 1971 an abandoned military area in the borough of Christianshavn, in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, was taken over by squatters, and c...
