The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

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

The largest piece of the Berlin Wall in the Southern Hemisphere sits outside this German social club in a Canberra suburb.

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

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

Order your coffee crowned with salted whipped cream or blended with coconut and ice.

A refugee returns to his homeland to open Ho Chi Minh City’s first Michelin-starred restaurant.

Nearly three tons of weapons from the Vietnam War still remain in this small, hidden museum.

Vietnam’s everyman “broken rice” dish is given one major upgrade at this humble institution.

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.

Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

This unique formation is characterized by hexagonal basalt rocks stacked in unique formations.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

In this Balinese village, coconut shells containing placentas are hung from trees.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

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

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