Places deriverative Wants to Go

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

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

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

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

Shoes and revealing shirts are not allowed inside this giant Vietnamese Christ.

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

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

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

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

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

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

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

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

One of Vietnam's only mosques pays tribute to the country's Muslim minority.