Abandoned in India

The only surviving relic of the abandoned Dominican convent.

One of the few surviving gates into Old Goa, the former capital of Portuguese India.

All that remains of a 16th-century Jesuit school is this carved, worn gate.

This abandoned stepwell is one of the largest, deepest, and certainly one of the creepiest in India.

The ancient water tanks remain some of the ruined city’s most beautiful architecture.

This abandoned palace and the stupas around it conceal beautiful Buddhist frescoes, statues, and silk paintings.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

A once-stately trading fort is now a ruin slowly being consumed by the sea.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

This abandoned fort is said to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that entry is prohibited after sunset.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.