A 1949 Art Deco single-screen at Marine Lines, built for premieres and still hosting film festivals.

The city's vast open-air laundry: rows of concrete wash-pens worked by generations of dhobis.

A crumbling coastal fort on Mahim Bay, wedged among a working fishing settlement.

An eight-lane cable-stayed bridge across Mahim Bay, best seen lit up from Bandra Fort.

Castella de Aguada, a Portuguese-era watchtower on the rocks at Bandra's Land's End, facing the Sea Link.

The Cathedral of Nossa Senhora da Vida, the principal church within Vasai Fort, now a roofless shell.

A 100-plus sq km forest inside the city limits, home to leopards, trails and the Kanheri caves.

A 1914 playhouse-turned-cinema in Kalbadevi, one of the oldest surviving single-screens in the city.

The sea-facing gate of Vasai Fort, flanked by huge baobab trees.

A colonnaded oval garden at the heart of Fort, ringed by old Elphinstone buildings and the Asiatic Society.

A 1680s harbour fort overlooking the mudflats where flamingos gather each winter.

Mumbai's first Anglican church, consecrated 1718; its zero-point once measured distances across the city.

A 1920s hotel in Ballard Estate, a survivor of the quarter's original commercial heyday.