
Chandigarh
Somewhere between a fever dream and a cathedral, Nek Chand's Rock Garden sits on eighteen acres of land that was never supposed to exist. Built in secret starting in 1957, the garden was an illegal construction on government land — a clandestine act of creation by a road inspector who spent his evenings hauling broken bangles, discarded electrical sockets, and shattered ceramic into the forest north of Sukhna Lake. By the time authorities discovered it in 1975, the labyrinth had grown too ext...


