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

Camera cars and condom bikes built from scrap and one man's passion.

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

Buddhist monk remarkably preserved because he started the mummification process while still living.

This temple contains what might be the world's oldest optical illusion.

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

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

The village where the park and museum are located is also the third-biggest hatchery of dinosaurs discovered.

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

This women-run eatery and cooking school is putting India's long-neglected tribal cuisines back on the menu.

Inside the dome of this gigantic, Saturn-shaped building is one of the largest planetariums in Asia.

This lavish estate recalls the opulent history of Calcutta.

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

This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.

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

World's most expensive home.

Half-size replica of the Taj Mahal.

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

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

Made by a man on a worldwide sanitation crusade.

At this sweet shop, the descendants of a royal chef serve up the fudge-like dessert his ancestor invented for a king.

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

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

The largest tiger reserve in India is a vast expanse dotted with ancient ruins of Nagarjuna Viswa Vidyalayam.