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10 of 10 places
Real heritage houses, 100 to 200 years old, were carefully carried here brick by brick from their villages.
The first fortress the British built in India, in 1644, is still a working seat of government, home to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.
Chola bronzes, some over a thousand years old, fill a round gallery, among the finest collections of their kind anywhere.
Tradition holds that it once stood closer to the sea and was demolished by the Portuguese in the 16th century, then rebuilt inland.
Built in 1842, it has guided ships along the Coromandel Coast for 180 years.
Krishna is shown here as Arjuna's charioteer, with a moustache and battle scars, in what is believed to be the oldest structure in Chennai.
Built over the tomb of St Thomas the Apostle, who by Christian tradition came to India in 52 CE, it is one of only three churches in the world above an apostle's tomb.
The building widely credited with launching the Indo-Saracenic style across India.
Built in 1821 for Chennai's Scottish community, in the Scottish baronial style.
Built to store ice shipped from Boston, it later became the house where Swami Vivekananda stayed for nine days in 1897.