Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

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

This ancient goddess temple inspired the design of India’s Parliament House.

Remote town home to Himachalis, Israelis, and tons of hashish.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

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

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

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

This beautiful 16th-century necropolis marks an astonishing feat in heritage conservation.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A deeply beautiful 15th-century stepwell with a tragic story.

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.

This abandoned stepwell is one of the largest, deepest, and certainly one of the creepiest in India.

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

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

This opulent 16th-century Maharaja’s palace is a unique mix of Hindu and Muslim designs.

This 11th-century temple gave rise to the word "juggernaut," as well as some mysteries that defy scientific explanation.

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