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12 of 12 places
A white-marble temple to Venkateswara took over a decade to build on a hilltop, blending three architectural styles.
Legend says a sultan prayed for a plague to end and vowed to build a mosque on the very spot where he prayed if it did.
For nearly two centuries the seat of the Nizams, with four courtyards built around the Khilwat Mubarak durbar hall.
Shaped like a scorpion, gifted to the 6th Nizam, and host to King George V and Tsar Nicholas II.
A single hand clap at the entrance gate can be heard at the highest pavilion nearly a kilometre away, a warning built into the walls.
A 58-foot Buddha of granite, the world's tallest of its kind, stands in the middle of a 16th-century lake.
Its central arch is said to be built from bricks made with soil brought from Mecca.
Nobles of the Nizam's court rest in ornate Indo-Islamic mausoleums built by the Paigah family in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Gifts presented to the last Nizam for his 1936 Silver Jubilee are kept here, including a gold and diamond wardrobe.
Seven sultans rest here in domed tombs once clad in blue-green glazed tiles, a rare intact dynastic necropolis.
One man, Nawab Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, gathered roughly 1.1 million objects over 35 years, one of the largest single-person art collections in the world.
Twelve doorways let breezes cross through this Qutb Shahi pavilion, now a place for cultural performance.