This historic complex is home to the oldest Christian grave in Kolkata, India.

For just a few hours each morning, this market serves specialties from the city's shrinking Chinese-Indian community.

The potters' quarter is packed with artists sculpting clay gods with mud from the sacred Ganges river.

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

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

This lavish estate recalls the opulent history of Calcutta.

This Jewish bakery, among the last in the region, sells legendary sweets from a century-old storefront.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.

An eclectic mix of influences rot together in harmony in this India necropolis.

A tribute to the area's namesake and King Edward VII.

A sandstone lamp post in Mumbai's business district honors the war efforts of the Port Trust and its employees who fell during World War I.

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

One of the last remnants of an 18th-century fort in the business district of Mumbai.

A drinking water fountain in the heart of Mumbai, built by a father in memory of his son.

These animal carvings stand as representations of India and Britain.

A tribute to one of Bombay's former governors that has withstood the test of time.

Mumbai's angel.

A heritage structure designed in 1882 honors a Parsi philanthropist.

Constructed in 1923, this is one of several heritage drinking fountains across Mumbai.

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.

The only Chinese temple in Mumbai.

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

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.