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

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

A Girgaon gateway station whose surrounds hold old wadis, sweet shops and the walk down to Girgaon Chowpatty.

The Franciscan church of St. Anthony inside Vasai Fort, its floor still set with old gravestones.

A Dominican church among the cluster of religious ruins inside Vasai Fort.

An 1864 sculpted fountain of the Roman goddess Flora, the busy pivot of the Fort business district.

A planned Edwardian business quarter of uniform stone facades, laid out on reclaimed dock land.

A crowded shopping stretch of street stalls, cafes and colonial facades running through Colaba.

UNESCO-listed rock-cut cave temples on an island an hour's ferry from the Gateway, centred on the great Trimurti.

A ruined church inside Vasai Fort, its arches opening toward the creek.

A 15th-century dargah and mosque on an islet reached by a causeway that floods at high tide.

The long suburban beach lined with bhelpuri stalls, and behind it the bungalows of the film industry.

A domed Indo-Saracenic general post office near CST, its central hall crowned by an unsupported dome.