Visit Little India in Singapore

Buzzing night market and street food.

Thirty-six guild streets of scooters, street kitchens and colonial shophouses around Hoan Kiem Lake.

Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.

Boulder-strewn ruins of the Vijayanagara empire along the Tungabhadra river.

Towering 9th-century Hindu temple compound near Yogyakarta.

The "citadel of women": pink sandstone carved so finely it is called the jewel of Khmer art.

Medieval Newar royal square of pagodas and wood-carved palaces.

The Meenakshi temple with 14 gopuram towers covered in painted gods, the heart of Tamil culture.