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Photo: Wikimedia CommonsLegend 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.
A grand 16th-century mosque and monument with four towering minarets, built by Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah to mark the founding of Hyderabad and commemorate the end of a devastating plague.
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A white-marble temple to Venkateswara took over a decade to build on a hilltop, blending three architectural styles.
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.