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India · Museums, Forts & Monuments
349 heritage places across 71 cities, each one verified against official sources, with hours, tickets, accessibility and significance, not guesswork. Check if the site is worth the trip through our Usher Score*.
A Windsor Castle look-alike in the heart of Bengaluru, still privately owned by the Wadiyar royal family.
Built to welcome a king, it became the gate through which the last British troops left India in 1948.
Every 15 August, India's Prime Minister raises the flag from Lahori Gate here, at the old seat of Mughal power.
The seat of the Peshwas for over 130 years burned in 1828, leaving only stone gates and foundations, one gate still studded with spikes meant to stop war elephants.
Shah Jahan built it in memory of Mumtaz Mahal, who died giving birth to their fourteenth child. About 20,000 workers laboured for roughly 22 years.
Built in 1892 as an act of charity during a famine, it later became a prison. Gandhi was held here during Quit India, and Kasturba Gandhi and Mahadev Desai died in custody. Their memorials stand in the garden.
In his final years, Shah Jahan was imprisoned here by his own son, gazing at the Taj Mahal, the tomb he built for his wife.
It took ten years to build and still carries millions of commuters every day, beneath a Gothic dome crowned with a statue of Progress.
