A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

Out of all the statues of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, this one is the tallest and the most impressive.

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

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

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

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

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

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

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

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

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

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

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

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

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

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

These "mermaids" that surround a plaza in Segovia are rather sphinx-like.

This magnificent castle grew from a small Moorish fortress, and reportedly inspired two iconic Disney castles.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

A towering monument in Spain has proven to be more labor-intensive than initially planned.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.