A rare surviving set of early 17th-century bronze finials remain on this bridge.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

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

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

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

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

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

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

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

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

Don’t miss the local staple of rice vermicelli with charcoal-grilled pork patties and pork belly.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

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

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

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

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

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

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

A well kept and well documented look at the Bruneian Sultan's life and successes.

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.

Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."