UNESCO World Heritage Sites of India

Uttar Pradesh

Taj Mahal + Agra Fort. The original reason UNESCO exists.

Bihar

Mahabodhi Temple Complex — where Buddhism began.

Bihar

Ruins of Nalanda Mahavihara — the archaeological remains of a university.

Madhya Pradesh

Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi — Great Stupa and gateways.

Madhya Pradesh

Bhimbetka Rock Shelters — 30,000 years of human art in cave shelters.

Madhya Pradesh

Khajuraho Group of Monuments — erotic temple sculptures, Chandela dynasty.

Uttar Pradesh

Fatehpur Sikri — Akbar's ghost city, abandoned after 14 years.

Assam

Kaziranga National Park — two-thirds of world's one-horned rhinos.

Assam

Manas Wildlife Sanctuary — tiger, rhino, elephant, pygmy hog.

West Bengal

Sundarbans National Park — largest mangrove forest, Royal Bengal Tigers.

West Bengal

Santiniketan — Tagore's Visva-Bharati university, cultural landscape.

West Bengal

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway — the Toy Train, mountain railway UNESCO.

Karnataka

Vijayanagara ruins. 1,600 monuments. Karnataka's crown jewel

Maharashtra

200 BCE Buddhist cave paintings. India's oldest surviving art

Maharashtra

Kailasa Temple carved from single rock. Buddhist-Hindu-Jain

Karnataka

Chalukyan temple complex. Dravidian + Nagara styles

Karnataka

Hoysala soapstone masterpiece. UNESCO 2024

Karnataka

Hoysaleswara Temple. Continuous sculptural frieze

Goa

16th-century Portuguese churches. Basilica of Bom Jesus

Odisha

Sun Temple UNESCO 1984 — 24 stone wheels, Kalinga architecture masterpiece