💀 Cursed Places in India

Delhi - darkometer rating : 4 - The capital city of India – and one of the largest (and most polluted) metropol...

Villa Shodhan

💀💀💀💀 3.9/5 Ahmedabad

Villa Shodhan (or Shodhan House) is a modernist villa located in Ahmedabad, India. Designed by the Swiss architect Le Co...

Qobustan mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan

Mud volcanoes of Qobustan - darkometer rating : 3 - A really bizarre sight that is almost unique to Azerbaijan :...

Jallianwala Bagh

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Site - darkometer rating : 6 - A memorial complex and park in the heart of Amritsar ,...

Battle of Kohima: The Greatest World War Two Battle Everyone Forgot

Perched on top of a mountain ridge, some 5,000 feet up in the remote hilly terrain of northeast India, lies the town of ...

The Rockets of Mysore

Rockets were originally invented not to send things into space, but to shoot enemies with. Their effectiveness in warfar...

The Great Banyan Tree

The Great Banyan Tree located in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, near Kolkata, India, is th...

Murud-Janjira Fort, India

💀💀💀💀 3.9/5 Murud

The Murud-Janjira Fort is situated on an oval-shaped rocky island in the Arabian Sea, near the coastal town of Murud, 16...

Punkah: The Hand Operated Ceiling Fans of Colonial India

When the British first came to India, they had to adapt themselves to a lot of unfamiliar things, such as the climate, t...

Nanjing Massacre Memorial

Nanjing Massacre Memorial - darkometer rating : 9 - The Nanjing massacre (often also referred to as "The rape of...

The Lake of The Dead: Roopkund

At a breathtaking altitude of 16,500ft, pristine waters of the Himalayas lay frozen to their depths for most part of the...

Sangath Office

💀💀💀💀 3.8/5 Ahmedabad

Balkrishna Doshi's own studio, Sangath, features a series of sunken vaults sheathed in china mosaic as well as a small g...

Ice Stupas: These Artificial Glaciers Are Solving Water Crises in The Himalayas

Photo credit: Sonam Wangchuk High in the Himalayas in northern India, at a remote village near Phyang Monastery in Ladak...

Vidhan Bhava, State Assembly

💀💀💀💀 3.8/5 Bhopal

“Critical Regionalism is a dialectical expression. It selfconsciously seeks to deconstruct universal modernism in ...

The Great Wall of Kumbhalgarh Fort

Located 84 km north of Udaipur, in the state of Rajasthan, in western India, Kumbhalgarh Fort is the second most importa...

Dhyana Buddha statue

💀💀💀💀 3.7/5 Amaravathi

The Dhyana Buddha is a statue of Gautama Buddha seated in a meditative posture located in Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh, In...

The Mysteries of Nidhivan

Every year millions set foot on Vrindavan with one motive: to witness Krishna’s raasleela . This dance of coquetry...

The Trillion Dollar Treasure of Padmanabhaswamy Temple

The famed Padmanabhaswamy temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu, the creator of the universe, in Thiruvananthapuram, in the st...

The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal

In May 1783, in a small village named Mundul Gaut, in Bengal, India, a strange child was born. He had two heads. The mid...

The Coal Fires of Jharia