Places Sputnicktatorship Wants to Go

This diminutive yet beautiful local stepwell once yielded enough water to irrigate the lush fields of the village.

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

A gray market run by Burmese Indians offers a portal to a forgotten period in history.

A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.

Worlds' largest inhabited river island.

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

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

Known as the wettest place on earth.

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.

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

The largest freshwater lake in northeast India is also the only floating national park in the world.

India's first open-air public art district sits in the heart of the country's capital.

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

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

Over 3 miles up in the Himalayas this pass is one of the highest drivable roads in the world.

This colorful colonial neighborhood in Panjim is one of the only Latin Quarters in Asia.

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

One man single-handedly dug a road right through a mountain after his wife died due to its interference.

The only Chinese temple in Mumbai.

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

This small and unknown museum recounts the life of Mirabai, a remarkable mystic saint of the 16th century.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

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