Corporation Bank Heritage Museum (Coin Museum)

Five minutes from the temple square, in the century-old house of the man who founded Corporation Bank in Udupi in 1906, sits a room most visitors walk straight past. Inside are more than 1,300 coins, the oldest dated to the 1st century BC, along with old notes, stamps, ledgers and the barter objects that the coastal trade once ran on. Entry is free, it opens every day except Sunday, roughly 10:00 to 17:00, and closes on bank holidays. Twenty to thirty minutes covers it comfortably, which is more or less why it gets skipped.

Two thousand years of coins in one free room, and hardly anyone walks in