Places lizziecmporter Wants to Go

The roof of one of the world’s largest spice markets provides a grand view over the neighborhood's glorious bustle.

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

This ruined relic of the medieval city of Jahanpanah is a quiet oasis in the middle of New Delhi.

This hidden Sufi cemetery is a spiritual monument for India's third gender community.

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

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

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

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

This small cafe aims to empower acid attack victims and stop violence against women in India.

An old curiosity shop holds on to a centuries-old tradition of manually-distilled rose water.

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

Ornate, dome-topped cenotaphs fill this royal crematorium.

This weekly bazaar started in the 1960s as a way for hippie travelers to barter their goods.

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

Made by a man on a worldwide sanitation crusade.

This magnificent 18th-century hall consists of a maze of nearly a thousand interconnected passages.

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

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

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

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

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

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

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.