The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai

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Jamsetji Tata built the hotel in 1903 after another Bombay hotel refused him for his ethnicity, and it became the city's first building with electric lights, telephones, elevators and an ice machine. Forbes notes its dome rests on steel scaffolding like the Eiffel Tower's and still serves the Indian Navy as a daytime triangulation point.