
Nek Chand's Rock Garden
Thousands of figures made from rubble and broken china by a road inspector, built in secret on government land and opened to the public in 1976.
Nek Chand, a road inspector who had come from the Pakistani side of the border as a refugee, began gathering stones and waste from the villages demolished to build Chandigarh, and in his spare time built a hidden kingdom of figures, courtyards and waterfalls in the forest.
When officials found it in the 1970s they could have demolished it; instead it was opened to the public, and it now draws thousands of visitors a day.
More modern art & architecture

Le Corbusier's government buildings for the new capital of Indian Punjab, built after Lahore was lost in 1947.

The tower in Lahore that marks where the Lahore Resolution was passed in 1940.

Three young women in red, green and ochre, sitting in silent expectation: the painting that won Sher-Gil the Bombay Art Society's gold medal.

Lahore's great painter, who drew on Mughal and Persian miniature to make a style of his own.

A museum of Sikh history and Punjabi culture designed by Moshe Safdie, its curving roofs set across a lake below the Keshgarh hill.

Lahore's arts centre on the Mall, designed by Nayyar Ali Dada in red brick, with rounded halls that echo the city's Mughal past.

The concrete dam across the Sutlej in the Shivalik hills, 226 metres high, whose water and power made the Green Revolution possible. Nehru called such projects the new temples of India.

A museum in Amritsar's old Town Hall that tells the story of 1947 through the voices, letters and belongings of the people who lived through it.

The flame-shaped red sandstone memorial designed by the American architect Benjamin Polk, opened in 1961 in the garden where Dyer's troops fired on the crowd in 1919.

Born in Jhelum in 1925 and deaf from childhood, Gujral painted the grief of the refugees in a series on Partition, before turning to murals, sculpture and architecture.

Founded as the Mayo School of Art, with John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard's father, as its first principal; he also ran the Lahore Museum next door. It trained generations of the craftsmen and artists of the Punjab.

One of the oldest colleges of the Punjab, its Gothic tower a Lahore landmark. Muhammad Iqbal studied and taught there, and so did the Nobel physicist Abdus Salam.

The road crossing between the two Punjabs, where soldiers of both countries have lowered their flags together every evening since 1959, in a ceremony of stamping and glaring watched by crowds on both sides.