More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.