Vishnu Pud

Ratneshwar Mahadev temple (left) and surrounding temples on the bank of the Ganges at what is now the Scindia Ghat in Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India, circa 1865. The Ratneshwar Mahadev temple is partially submerged for most of the year and subsidence has now led to it lean towards the north-west). Vintage albumen print. (Photo by Samuel Bourne/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)