A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

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

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

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

Executed at age 19, this Vietnamese schoolgirl is now a national hero and symbol of revolutionary spirit.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.