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

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

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.

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

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

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

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

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

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.

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

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.