Order your phở stir-fried, sans soup.

Home to the world's largest collection of ancient Champa's sculptural works, featuring many Hindu and Buddhist deities.

For true northern-style phở with broth as clear as consommé, hunt for this restaurant hidden within a residential home.

Founded by French colonists in 1919, this mountain resort has been transformed into one-of-a-kind theme park.

For a taste of Vietnamese gastropub culture, look no further than this convivial seafood joint that stays open till midnight.

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

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

Under Hanoi’s medieval citadel sits a secret military headquarters from the final years of the Vietnam War.

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

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

This crab paste noodle soup specialist has been doling out its namesake dish for more than four decades.

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

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

A cityscape of burial tombs that you can easily lose yourself in.

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

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

Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

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

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

A sculpture park that takes the use of clay to a whole new level.

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

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

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