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.

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

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

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

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