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Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

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

These animal carvings stand as representations of India and Britain.

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.

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

An ancient temple in the middle of a residential neighborhood encapsulated by a beautiful tree.

An eighth-century rock-cut cave temple in the middle of Pune.

A former palace that showcases weapons, jewelry, clothing, furniture, musical instruments, and more from the Peshwa Era.

This castle was designed to have as many windows as there are days in the year.

The ruins of an early 1900s neo-Baroque mansion sit nestled in a local park in the Hungarian plains.

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

This 13th century Orthodox monastery is built right into the Moldovan cliffside.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.

The largest statue of this convex, homogeneous object with just one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.

An unmistakable facial pareidolia in the Julian Alps also includes a fantastic tale.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.