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

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

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

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.