An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

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

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

Villagers have recycled bomber fuel tanks from the Vietnam War and turned them into very, very strong boats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

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