India Fatehpour Sikri
Some 26 miles from Agra and its famed Taj Mahal (in Uttar Pradesh, India) stands an immense ghost town of pavilions, royal palaces, and other buildings, enclosed in a fortified sandstone wall. It has stood here for over 425 years since the Mughal Emperor, Akbar the Great, abandoned it shortly after its completion in the second half of the 16th century. This is Fatehpour Sikri (the name means “City of Victory”), the first planned city of the Mughals and perhaps one…