Nestled among the artifacts of the National Crafts Museum, this hidden gem offers hard-to-find regional foods from all over India.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

A mecca for India's Jains.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

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

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

Ornate, dome-topped cenotaphs fill this royal crematorium.

This opulent 16th-century Maharaja’s palace is a unique mix of Hindu and Muslim designs.

The beautiful 16th-century stepwell lies in the shadow of a famous fortress.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

The feminist fashion collective centering Palestinian craftsmanship and radical transparency.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

One of the tallest bell towers in Italy plays a particular melody at just two times each day.

This colonial mining complex is now home to magnificent themed gardens.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Two World War II aircraft lie within the jungle around this abandoned runway.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

An Inca spa, military outpost or maybe… both?