This deserted palace is one of the finest examples of Indo-Islamic architecture in India.

A small village in India bears witness to the end of birds' lives every September.

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

The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.

One-room museum dedicated to India's most enigmatic mathematician.

A pair of nearly 1,000-year-old temples profusely covered in meticulous stone carvings.

Known as the "Queen of Beach Markets," Calangute epitomizes Goa's beach flea market scene.

Kolkata’s only Portuguese church has a curious link with chickens.

Liquor and flowers mark a holy site for Indian motorcycle riders.

Inside a beautiful Indian temple is a seemingly magical floating pillar that doesn't touch the ground.

This ancient fortress was once the setting for a strange battle won with the help of a lizard.

A gray market run by Burmese Indians offers a portal to a forgotten period in history.

This diminutive yet beautiful local stepwell once yielded enough water to irrigate the lush fields of the village.

India’s only Brain Museum displays over 200 fascinating ways that your brain might kill you.

Once where royalty entertained guests, this opulent table is now one of the longest in the world.

Worlds' largest inhabited river island.

A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.

This reserve is the only place in the world where you can see the Barasingha swamp deer in the wild.

More than 2 million Olive Ridley sea turtles are hatched from this mass nesting ground every year.

The tallest statue in the world is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.

A centuries-old shrine where Indians pray for U.S. visas.

A favorite haunt of Delhi's politicos and intellectuals, this old-school coffee shop was shut down under Indira Gandhi's Emergency.

The site of an atrocity that would be used to justify Britain’s conquest of India.

A village in India with a mysteriously high number of twins.