3D modeling is a demanding area of research. Creating a 3D world from sequence of images captured using different mobile cameras pose additional challenge in this field. We plan to explore this area of computer vision to model a 3D world of Indian heritage sites for virtual tourism. In this paper a comparative study of the existing methods used for 3D reconstruction of un-calibrated image sequences was done. The study shows different scenario of modeling 3D objects from un-calibrated images which include community photo collection, images taken from unknown camera, 3D modeling using two un-calibrated images, etc. Hence the different methods available were studied and an overall view of the techniques used in each step of 3D reconstruction was explored. The merits and demerits of each method were also compared.