Ranked by how much each place adds to a visit, with realistic visiting times, opening hours and ticket prices.
9 places · showing 1–9
1
240 acres laid out by Hyder Ali in the 1760s, with a Crystal Palace glasshouse, a 3,000-million-year-old rock outcrop and the city's best…
2
A 1,478 m hill an hour north with a Tipu Sultan-era fort, a Chola temple and a famous cloud-sea sunrise.
3
300 acres of trees and colonial buildings in the middle of the city, closed to traffic on Sundays and used by everyone.
4
A large modern temple complex on a hill in Rajajinagar, with glass-and-gold architecture and a well-organised darshan flow.
5
A Tudor-revival palace of 1878 modelled on Windsor Castle, still owned by the Mysore royal family and full of Edwardian excess.
6
The cantonment shopping district — clothes, shoes and jewellery on Commercial Street, and a 1927 produce market a few lanes away.
7
A 16th-century temple around a 4.5-metre monolithic Nandi bull carved from a single granite boulder.
8
India's first aerospace museum, with aircraft you can sit in, a flight simulator and the story of Hindustan Aeronautics.
9
A two-storey teak palace of 1791, all carved pillars and painted arches, in the old city near the fort.