Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

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

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

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

A sculpture park that takes the use of clay to a whole new level.

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.

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

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

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.

Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

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

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.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

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

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

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

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

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

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