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

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

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

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

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

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

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.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

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

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

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

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

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

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

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

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

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.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.