At this sweet shop, the descendants of a royal chef serve up the fudge-like dessert his ancestor invented for a king.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

The world's largest Tibetan refugee settlement.

The ancient water tanks remain some of the ruined city’s most beautiful architecture.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

Once considered one of the three great Augustinian churches in the Iberian world.

Considered one of the oldest surviving churches in Goa.

Scholar, adventurer, saint, and instigator of the Goa Inquisition.

The lone remnant of a 16th-century palace in Old Goa.

The last remaining colonial-era Italian church in Old Goa.

When new viceroys were elected, they passed through this arch to cement the title.

A tribute to the area's namesake and King Edward VII.

A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.

This fortress played a key role in the battle that would ultimately give rise to the Maratha Empire.

A centuries-old Hindu cave temple is tucked away in a quiet suburb.