Places Gravewalker Wants to Go

A 66-million-year-old rock formation stands tall over Mumbai, offering stellar city views.

Designed as a 17th-century watchtower, the former fort is now a popular sunset haunt.

An ancient temple of Lord Shiva was rediscovered in an excavation in 2003.

This 17th-century temple gave the area of Ganeshkhind its name.

A magnificent work of architecture designed to honor a former military leader.

A stone monument dedicated to Indian soldiers who fought and died for the British Indian Army during World War I.

One in a series of historical markers from the massive 19th-century undertaking to map all of India.

An obelisk designed in memory of the soldiers from the city and district who fought in The Great War.

In the courtyard of a popular museum stands a piece of artillery from 1859.

These fascinating 19th-century tombs in the center of Pune belong to Europeans who lived in the city in that era.

In Mumbai, a bright blue synagogue is the largest one for the Baghdadi Jewish community in Asia.

A 19th-century church in South Mumbai built to commemorate those who died in the First Anglo-Afghan War and the retreat from Kabul in 1842.

Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.