Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

An eerie abandoned gentlemen's club built for British officials during the colonial era.

The evocative ruins of a 1,000-year-old hill fort lie within a popular tiger reserve.

The oldest still-inhabited hill fort in India looks like a magnificent golden sandcastle.

This stunning 15th-century royal hill fort preserves the age of chivalry in Rajasthan.

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

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

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

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

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.