The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

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

This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

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

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.

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.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

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

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.