A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

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

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

The biggest exposition of dental equipement in Europe. And a Mummy.

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

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

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

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

Shoes and revealing shirts are not allowed inside this giant Vietnamese Christ.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

Take a hidden path to the mouth of the cave to watch millions of bats swarm at sunset.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?