Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

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

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.

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

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

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

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

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

Melbourne's favorite bronze dog.

Children's author May Gibbs's beloved stories about the tiny, human-like "Gumnut Babies" are immortalized in bronze.

Not the result of an accident, hurricane, or aliens, this is an eye-popping tribute to the Melbourne tram.