Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

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

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

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

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

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

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

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

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

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

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

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

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

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