Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

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

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

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

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

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

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

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

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

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.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

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

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