Everyone visits the Taj Mahal, but have you ever heard of the Rani ki Vav in Gujarat? It's a 900-year-old stepwell with 1,500 sculptures that's basically an underground palace. Or the fact that there's a temple in Tamil Nadu where a 1,000-year-old Nandi statue is carved from a single piece of granite weighing 25 tons? India has some wild stuff hiding in plain sight. There's a fort in Rajasthan where every room has perfect acoustics—whisper in one corner and someone across the hall can hear you clearly. The Cholas built bronze sculptures so detailed you can see individual fingernails, and somehow figured out how to make them using the lost-wax technique that modern foundries still struggle with. In Kerala, there are wooden temples held together without a single nail, just wood joints so precise they've survived monsoons for centuries. The problem isn't that these places don't exist—it's that nobody talks about them. Most travel websites just copy each other's lists of the same 20 places. So I started digging around, talking to locals, checking out random mentions in old books, and honestly just getting lost in villages to see what I'd find. Turns out there are thousands of these places, each with some crazy story or architectural trick that'll make you wonder how they pulled it off. Anvaya Maps is basically my attempt to document all this before it gets turned into parking lots. You can bookmark places, read their stories, and actually get directions that work.