Places ebsaryr Wants to Go

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

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

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

An ornate tomb pays tribute to one of the most influential and cherished military leaders in Vietnam's history.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.

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

Nearly three tons of weapons from the Vietnam War still remain in this small, hidden museum.

This unique formation is characterized by hexagonal basalt rocks stacked in unique formations.

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

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

Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

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

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

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

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

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