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A stone-paved path leading through crenellated stone walls and bastions, with the long ruined royal palace on a green, scrub-covered hillside behind

Rajasthan

Bhangarh Fort

Bhangarh is less a fort than a whole town that emptied, and the Archaeological Survey of India protects it as exactly that: an "ancient site" of fort walls…

The Jatayu sculpture on the summit of Jatayupara under a cloudy sky, the bird's head with open beak on the right and its talons raised above the spread wing, with a doorway and the name 'jatayu' set into its base

Kerala

Jatayu Earth's Center Nature Park

Rajiv Anchal's Jatayu lies on its back on the summit of Jatayupara, a rock hill at Chadayamangalam in Kollam district, and it is the reason to come.

The carved white-marble gateway of Karni Mata Temple set into a pink-washed outer wall, with a dome, a trident and flags above it

Rajasthan

Karni Mata Temple

Karni Mata Temple, also called Madh, is the one known well beyond Rajasthan as the Temple of Rats, and the name is meant literally.

White marble front of Khatu Shyam Temple with 'Jai Shri Shyam' lettered along it in Hindi, domed chhatris and a saffron flag on the roof, and pilgrims at the queue railings under a metal canopy

Rajasthan

Khatu Shyam Temple

Khatu is a small town in Sikar district, 80 km by road from Jaipur, and what is worshipped in its temple is a head, an idol in stone.

Grass tufts on the summit of Meesapulimala in the foreground, the valleys below filled with a sea of white cloud, and dark ridges running away under a clear blue sky

Kerala

Meesapulimala

Meesapulimala is a summit of about 2,640 m on the Idukki district border, between the Anaimalai and Palani hills near Suryanelli, and it is not a hill you…

A night crowd of devotees with raised hands fills the lane in front of the floodlit white facade of Mehandipur Balaji Temple, with its domed chhatris

Rajasthan

Mehandipur Balaji Temple

Mehandipur Balaji is a Hanuman temple in Dausa district, built between two Aravalli hills, and it is not a place to visit for its architecture.

A jagged, forest-covered ridge rising behind a belt of trees and a grassy, rock-strewn slope, under a clear blue sky

Kerala

Ponmudi

Ponmudi is a hill in the Western Ghats in Thiruvananthapuram district, and the Forest Department runs it as an eco-tourism site with a paid entry ticket.

Grassy slopes and scrub in the foreground falling away to a line of blue Western Ghats peaks under heavy grey cloud

Kerala

Vagamon

Vagamon is tea gardens, meadow and pine forest on the Kottayam–Idukki border, about 1,100 m up.

Siniolchu

Sikkim

Siniolchu

At 6,888 metres, one of the tallest mountains in Sikkim, and the one people single out for its shape rather than its height.

Jind

Haryana

Jind

One of the oldest and largest cities in its district, and the district headquarters, which tells you what to expect.

Kapal Mochan

Haryana

Kapal Mochan

A bathing tank 17 km north-east of Yamunanagar and Jagadhari, on the Bilaspur road, held sacred by Hindus and Sikhs alike and also known as Gopal Mochan and…

Cantonment Church Tower

Haryana

Cantonment Church Tower

St James' Church was founded in Karnal in 1806 and is no longer a church.

Chandi Mandir

Haryana

Chandi Mandir

Chandigarh took its name from this temple rather than the other way round, which is the fact worth carrying up the highway with you.

Ekachakra

West Bengal

Ekachakra

Ekachakra lies 20 km from Rampurhat in Birbhum, and it is a village rather than a site, which changes how you should plan.

Bargabhima Temple

West Bengal

Bargabhima Temple

The Bargabhima Temple stands at Tamluk in Purba Medinipur, on the bank of the Roopnarayan, and is counted among the 51 Shaktipeeths, the one known as Vibhash.

Tajpur

West Bengal

Tajpur

Tajpur is the quiet gap between Mandarmani and Shankarpur, about 173 km from Kolkata by NH16 and NH116B, in the Contai subdivision of Purba Medinipur.

Digha

West Bengal

Digha

Digha sits at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal in Purba Medinipur, and it is the beach most of Bengal has already been to: the state's most visited sea…

Chandi Devi Temple, Haridwar

Uttarakhand

Chandi Devi Temple, Haridwar

Chandi Devi stands on Neel Parvat, the eastern summit of the Sivalik hills at the southern edge of the Himalaya, above Haridwar.

Ghorakhal

Uttarakhand

Ghorakhal

Ghorakhal means the pond where horses were watered, a fair account of what this shoulder of hill above Bhowali was before anyone came for the view.

Surkanda Devi

Uttarakhand

Surkanda Devi

Surkanda Devi is a hilltop shrine near Dhanaulti in Tehri Garhwal, at roughly 2,756 metres, and the height does the work: the Himalayan ranges lie open in a…

Bhimtal Lake

Uttarakhand

Bhimtal Lake

Bhimtal is the largest lake in Nainital district and the largest in Kumaon, the region known as the lake district of India, and second in Uttarakhand by…

Sanghi Temple

Telangana

Sanghi Temple

Thirty-five kilometres out of Hyderabad, on top of Paramanand Giri hill at Sanghi Nagar, with a Raja Gopuram tall enough to pick out from several kilometres…

Aishwarya Ganapathi

Telangana

Aishwarya Ganapathi

There is one thing to see here and it is worth the detour: a monolithic Ganesha, 7.62 metres tall and 9.144 metres counting the pedestal, at Avancha in…

Devunigutta Temple

Telangana

Devunigutta Temple

Probably 6th century, probably Vakataka, and left alone on a forested plateau some 60 km east of Warangal until the ASI recorded it, abandoned, in 2012.