The Rock Garden is Chandigarh's answer to Le Corbusier — a sprawling, dreamlike 25-acre sculpture park assembled from broken bangles, chipped tiles, electrical insulators, bicycle frames and a thousand other kinds of waste. Where the Capitol Complex is rational and monumental, the Rock Garden is folk-surreal: narrow passages open onto courtyards full of ceramic dancers, then funnel down into stepped amphitheatres and waterfalls.
Allow a couple of hours to walk through. The route is one-way, designed to deliver a sequence of surprises, and the scale only becomes clear as you keep emerging into yet another courtyard. It is busy with Indian families on weekends and the queue moves slowly; come on a weekday morning if you want time to look. The garden sits between the Capitol Complex and Sukhna Lake, easy to combine with both.