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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

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

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

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.