Urban & Modern
210 destinations
Places to Explore
Hyderabad · Telangana
Charminar
The iconic four-minareted heritage arch built in 1591, centerpiece of old Hyderabad's commerce and bazaar life.
Mumbai · Maharashtra
Gateway of India
Iconic yellow basalt and limestone arch overlooking the Arabian Sea, symbolizing Mumbai's maritime history.
Jaipur · Rajasthan
Hawa Mahal
The iconic "Palace of Winds" – a stunning pink-and-red sandstone structure with 953 tiny latticed windows.
New Delhi · Delhi
India Gate
A 42-metre war-memorial arch and beloved evening gathering place at the heart of New Delhi.
Rewari · Haryana
Rewari Railway Heritage Museum
India's only surviving 1893 steam-locomotive shed, an open-air railway heritage museum on the north edge of Rewari junction that keeps a fleet of vintage engines in working order — including the 1855 'Fairy Queen', the world's oldest steam locomotive still in service.
Alwar · Rajasthan
Alwar City Palace (Vinay Vilas Mahal)
A late-18th-century Rajput-Mughal palace at the foot of Bala Qila in Alwar, its upper floors home to the Government Museum's miniatures, manuscripts and armoury.
Mumbai · Maharashtra
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus
F.W. Stevens' 1888 Victorian Gothic railway cathedral at the head of Fort — a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the headquarters of Central Railway, and still the most photographed building in Mumbai.
Bharatpur · Rajasthan
Lohagarh Fort (Iron Fort of Bharatpur)
Bharatpur's low, brooding 'Iron Fort' — raised by Maharaja Suraj Mal in 1732 behind twin moats, it shrugged off thirteen British assaults and still guards the Kishori Mahal palaces and the Jawahar and Fateh victory towers.
New Delhi · Delhi
Red Fort
Shah Jahan's vast 17th-century red-sandstone Mughal fort in Old Delhi — a UNESCO site and the stage for India's Independence Day address.
Bharatpur · Rajasthan
Deeg Palace (Jal Mahal / Monsoon Palace)
The Jat rulers' 18th-century garden palace at Deeg, a moated pleasure-retreat of marble pavilions, Charbagh gardens and a famous 'monsoon' fountain system whose thousands of jets are switched on only a couple of times a year.
Mumbai · Maharashtra
Marine Drive and the Queen's Necklace
A 3.6 km curved seafront boulevard on Mumbai's Back Bay, lined with 1930s Art Deco apartment blocks and edged by a wide public promenade, whose sweep of street lamps reads as a necklace of light after dark.
Alwar · Rajasthan
Moosi Maharani ki Chhatri
A sandstone-and-marble double-storeyed royal cenotaph (c.1815) beside Alwar's City Palace, its arched Bengali-roof pavilions mirrored in the Sagar tank.
Vrindavan · Uttar Pradesh
Prem Mandir
A gleaming white Italian-marble 'Temple of Divine Love' in Vrindavan, opened in 2012, famed for lace-fine carving, twin Radha-Krishna and Sita-Ram sanctums, and a dancing musical fountain and colour-changing light show at dusk.
Omkareshwar · Madhya Pradesh
Statue of Oneness (Ekatmata ki Pratima)
A 108-ft multi-metal statue of Adi Shankaracharya as a child ascetic, unveiled in 2023 atop Mandhata hill above Omkareshwar's sacred Narmada island.
Tehri · Uttarakhand
Tehri Dam Engineering Viewpoint
A high overlook onto one of the world's tallest rock-fill dams — a ~260 m Himalayan engineering landmark on the Bhagirathi, best seen from the New Tehri ridge.
Tehri · Uttarakhand
Dobra Chanti Suspension Bridge
India's longest motorable single-lane suspension bridge — a 725-metre engineering marvel arcing across the emerald Tehri Lake toward Pratapnagar, dazzling by day and floodlit in colour by night.
Greater Noida · Uttar Pradesh
Gautam Buddha University Campus
A 511-acre eco-campus in Greater Noida laid out around a serene central Buddha statue, a stupa-form meditation centre, and a peace lake — one of the NCR's most under-the-radar green walking spaces.
Mandu · Madhya Pradesh
Hindola Mahal (Swinging Palace)
A grand Malwa-Sultanate audience hall in Mandu whose steeply sloping, buttressed walls give it the illusion of a swaying cradle — hence "Swinging Palace".
Jaipur · Rajasthan
City Palace Complex
A palace that never stopped being a home — courtyard museums, the Guinness-record silver Gangajali urns, four painted seasonal gates, and a seven-storey Chandra Mahal where the Jaipur royal family still lives.
Mathura · Uttar Pradesh
Kans Qila (Mathura Fort)
A weathered brick-and-sandstone fortress on the Yamuna's bank in old Mathura, named for the tyrant-king Kansa of Krishna legend, rebuilt by Raja Man Singh of Amber and once crowned by a Jai Singh observatory that no longer stands.
New Delhi · Delhi
Lotus Temple
Delhi's iconic white-marble lotus-shaped landmark — a 1986 architectural marvel of 27 petals, free to visit and one of the world's most-visited buildings.
Greater Noida · Uttar Pradesh
Pari Chowk
Greater Noida's signature 'Fairy Square' — a grand landscaped roundabout of golden fairy sculptures and a peacock centrepiece amid gardens, fountains and ornamental lighting, best seen glowing after dusk.
Junagadh · Gujarat
Uparkot Fort
Ancient hilltop citadel above Junagadh with rock-cut stepwells, Buddhist caves and old cannons, dramatically restored beneath Girnar's peaks.
Ghaziabad · Uttar Pradesh
Hindon Riverfront
Ghaziabad's in-progress riverside greenway along the Hindon, anchored by the leafy, boat-friendly City Forest park near Raj Nagar Extension.
Jaipur · Rajasthan
Jal Mahal
An 18th-century sandstone palace marooned in Man Sagar Lake with four of its five storeys underwater. The interior is closed to visitors — this is a free 20-30 minute lakeside view, best at first light or late afternoon.
Greater Noida · Uttar Pradesh
Statue of Krishna, Gaur Yamuna City
A 108-foot copper-and-bronze standing Krishna — said to be India's tallest statue of the flute-playing deity — rising beside the Yamuna Expressway on the road to Braj, with a small temple at its base.
Prayagraj · Uttar Pradesh
Anand Bhavan
The stately former Nehru family mansion in Prayagraj, now a museum of India's freedom movement with preserved period rooms and archives.
Rishikesh · Uttarakhand
Beatles Ashram (Chaurasi Kutia)
The abandoned Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ashram where the Beatles stayed in 1968 — now a forest-department heritage site of moss-green meditation domes covered in psychedelic murals and graffiti.
Porbandar · Gujarat
Huzoor Palace
A grand early-20th-century seafront royal palace of Porbandar's Jethwa rulers, admired from outside for its princely-era architecture along the Arabian Sea coast.
Somnath · Gujarat
Somnath Sound & Light Show ("Jai Somnath")
An evening son-et-lumière in the Somnath temple grounds that narrates the legend and long heritage of the shrine against the floodlit seafront temple.
Porbandar · Gujarat
Bharat Mandir Hall
A domed cultural hall in Porbandar with a giant relief map of India on its floor and pillars carved with figures from epic, history and tradition.
Dwarka · Gujarat
Sudarshan Setu (Okha–Bet Dwarka Bridge)
India's longest cable-stayed bridge, a ~2.3-km sea span linking mainland Okha to the pilgrim island of Bet Dwarka, opened 2024.
Mandu · Madhya Pradesh
Champa Baoli Stepwell
A cool octagonal stepwell in Mandu's Royal Enclave, named for water said to carry the scent of champak flowers and linked to vaulted underground retreat chambers.
New Delhi · Delhi
Connaught Place
New Delhi's grand colonial-era shopping and dining circle — Georgian colonnades, big-brand stores, street markets, and famous vegetarian restaurants.
Gurugram · Haryana
Museo Camera Centre for Photographic Arts
South Asia's largest not-for-profit photography centre in DLF Phase 4, Gurugram — 4,000+ vintage cameras, rotating galleries, a research library and a working darkroom.
Mumbai · Maharashtra
Bombay High Court
A blue-basalt Victorian Gothic courthouse of 1878 facing the Oval Maidan, stacked with shaded arcades, octagonal towers and famously mischievous carved capitals — still a working court, and best admired from outside.
Gurugram · Haryana
Baoli Ghaus Ali Shah
A three-storey octagonal stone-and-lime stepwell in the old salt town of Farrukhnagar, west of Gurugram — an ASI-restored 18th-century water monument whose cool arched galleries anchor the Farrukhnagar heritage walk.
Jaipur · Rajasthan
Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh — Former Home of The Sculpture Park
The 19th-century queens' palace inside Nahargarh that hosted India's first contemporary-art public space from 2017 to 2024. The Sculpture Park has since moved to Jaigarh Fort — the palace, its courtyard of apartments and its frescoed corridors remain open on the standard fort ticket.
Tehri · Uttarakhand
New Tehri Hilltop Town Viewpoints
India's model planned hill town, terraced across ridges 1,750 m above the turquoise Tehri reservoir — a sequence of open sunset-facing viewpoints over the lake and dam, and the road base for Koti Colony water sports.
Rameswaram · Tamil Nadu
Pamban Railway Bridge (Historic Scherzer Span)
India's landmark 1914 sea rail bridge across the Pamban channel, whose central Scherzer rolling-lift span once cranked open to let boats pass beneath the Rameswaram trains.
Mumbai · Maharashtra
Rajabai Clock Tower and University Fort Campus
Gilbert Scott's Venetian Gothic bell tower of 1878, climbing some 85 metres above the University of Mumbai's Fort campus and the cricket games on Oval Maidan — a centrepiece of the city's UNESCO-listed Victorian Gothic and Art Deco ensemble.
Porbandar · Gujarat
Tara Mandir (Nehru Planetarium)
Porbandar's domed 'temple of stars' in Khapat, opposite Bharat Mandir: fixed-slot sky shows and freedom-movement photo panels, on a nominal ticket.
Ujjain · Madhya Pradesh
Vedh Shala (Jantar Mantar Observatory)
Jai Singh II's 18th-century masonry observatory on the Shipra, where working stone yantras still track the sun — Ujjain's link to India's classical prime meridian.
Jaipur · Rajasthan
Birla Mandir (Laxmi Narayan Temple)
A luminous white Makrana-marble temple to Lakshmi and Narayan at the foot of Moti Dungri hill, opened in 1988 by the Birla family. Free to enter, carved with Gita and Upanishad verses, and floodlit into something ethereal after dark.
Dwarka · Gujarat
Nageshwar Seated Shiva Statue
A roughly 80-foot seated Shiva statue crowning the Nageshwar Jyotirlinga complex near Dwarka — one of India's tallest, visible for miles across the coastal plain.
Mumbai · Maharashtra
Oval Maidan Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble
A cricket-filled green in South Mumbai flanked by Victorian Gothic spires on one side and a 1930s Art Deco streetscape on the other, together inscribed by UNESCO in 2018.
Prayagraj · Uttar Pradesh
Allahabad Museum
A national-grade museum in Chandrashekhar Azad Park, rich in ancient terracottas, Bharhut and Kaushambi sculpture, miniatures and freedom-movement galleries.
Rameswaram · Tamil Nadu
New Pamban Vertical-Lift Sea Bridge
India's first vertical-lift sea railway bridge, opened in April 2025 across the Pamban channel — a 2.08 km crossing whose 72.5 m navigational lift span rises for vessels.
Diu · Daman & Diu
Old Town Portuguese Quarter (Heritage Walk)
A walkable grid of pastel Portuguese townhouses, carved wooden balconies and narrow galis on the seafront edge of Diu — 450 years of Indo-Portuguese heritage on foot.
Junagadh · Gujarat
Darbar Hall Museum
Former Nawabi durbar hall in Junagadh displaying royal thrones, chandeliers, weapons, textiles and portraits of the princely state's rulers.
Junagadh · Gujarat
Adi-Kadi Vav
A dramatic rock-cut stepwell inside Junagadh's Uparkot Fort, reached by a long straight flight of steps hewn through solid stone.
New Delhi · Delhi
Garden of Five Senses
A 20-acre themed leisure garden near Saket — sculptures, murals, spice and herb beds, an amphitheatre and cafés, designed to delight all five senses.
Junagadh · Gujarat
Navghan Kuvo
An ancient rock-cut stepped well inside Junagadh's Uparkot Fort, its spiralling staircase winding down through living stone to a deep water source.
Prayagraj · Uttar Pradesh
Muir Central College (University of Allahabad)
A soaring 1886 Indo-Saracenic masterpiece with a 200-ft tower — the architectural heart of the University of Allahabad, the historic 'Oxford of the East'.
Mumbai · Maharashtra
Bandra-Worli Sea Link
India's first cable-stayed bridge built over open sea, its twin 128-metre pylons sweeping across Mahim Bay between Bandra and Worli - best admired at golden hour from the Bandstand promenade or Worli Sea Face.
Rameswaram · Tamil Nadu
Annai Indira Gandhi Road Bridge (Pamban Road Bridge)
The long road bridge arcing over the Pamban channel — the classic drive-across sea view linking Rameswaram island to the mainland at Mandapam.
Ujjain · Madhya Pradesh
Rudra Sagar Lake
The sacred lake hugging the Mahakaleshwar precinct in Ujjain, revived under the Mahakal Lok project as a glassy foreground mirroring the temple and corridor.
Mumbai · Maharashtra
Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum
Mumbai's oldest museum, opened in 1872 and restored to its gilded Victorian interior, telling the city's own story through trades, maps, models and decorative arts inside the Byculla botanical gardens.
Mumbai · Maharashtra
Kamala Nehru Park
A small terraced park near the crest of Malabar Hill, famous for its climbable Old Woman's Shoe and a parapet view down to Girgaum Chowpatty and the curving sweep of Marine Drive.
Junagadh · Gujarat
Bahauddin Bhar Maqbara (Vazir's Mausoleum)
A flamboyant Indo-Islamic mausoleum in Junagadh famous for the winding external spiral staircases wrapped around its four soaring minarets.
+150 more not shown here — Browse every place by city.