Monte Kali: A Mountain of Table Salt
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2015
Monte Kali is an unusual landmark in the small town of Heringer in eastern Hesse, Germany. It’s a spoil heap containing nothing but sodium c...
M-185: The Only US Highway Where Motor Vehicles Are Banned
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2015
Highway M-185 in the U.S. state of Michigan, is the safest road in America because it is the only state highway in the nation where motor ve...
Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2015
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the pa...
The Morning Glory Clouds of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2015
The Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia is home to one of the world's most extraordinary meteorological phenomenon. From late Sep...
China Opens Longest Glass-Bottomed Suspension Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2015
Last year, we reported a new attraction in China — a high-altitude glass bottom bridge in Shiniuzhai National Geological Park in Pingjiang ...
The New Croton Dam And Spillway
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2015
The New Croton Dam, across the Croton River, near Croton-on-Hudson, about 35 km north of New York City, was built between 1892 and 1906 to d...
Landscape Agate: These Silica Rocks Resemble Beautiful Natural Scenes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2015
Agate is a crystalized form of silica, made up primarily of chalcedony, a type of quartz that is composed of very fine intergrowths of the m...
Petaloudes: The Valley of Butterflies
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2015
The Valley of Butterflies, also known as Petaloudes Valley, is located on the western side of the Greek island of Rhodes, about 25 kilometer...
Japan's Fruit-Shaped Bus Stops
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2015
Bus stops come in all shapes and sizes . In the small Japanese town of Konagai, in the outskirts of Isahaya, in Nagasaki Prefecture, they c...
The Mingun Pagoda And The World’s 2nd Largest Bell
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2015
The Mingun Pahtodawgyi or Minigun Paya in the town of Mingun, approximately 10 km northwest of Mandalay in central Myanmar, is a massive unf...
