The Beatles Ashram — officially Chaurasi Kutia, meaning "eighty-four huts" — is the forest compound where the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi established his meditation academy in the 1960s. Since the ashram was abandoned in 1997 and eventually handed to the Forest Research Institute, the jungle has been steadily reclaiming the buildings: domed meditation cells, the lecture hall, the stone cottages where the Beatles stayed, and the large central tower are all still standing but engulfed in vegetation, painted with murals by visiting artists.
The site has been officially managed as a forest park since around 2015, with a small entrance fee charged at the gate. You walk through dense sal forest to reach the compound, and the combination of overgrown architecture and jungle is visually extraordinary — a sort of accidental ruin that has developed its own atmosphere entirely separate from the Beatles mythology. The meditation domes, each large enough for four people to sit inside, are particularly atmospheric. Allow an hour for a thorough visit.