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The world's largest permanent architectural projection display entertains audiences nightly with 28-story light shows.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

The resolution to a case that had gone cold for 120 years, found on an old piece of wood.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

A sign marks where the two bodies of water meet.

Known to backpackers as the "Steps of Doom," this walkway carved into the side of a seaside cliff leads to the Roman Tombs.

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t miss the local staple of rice vermicelli with charcoal-grilled pork patties and pork belly.

For true northern-style phở with broth as clear as consommé, hunt for this restaurant hidden within a residential home.

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

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.

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

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

Vietnam’s everyman “broken rice” dish is given one major upgrade at this humble institution.

This crab paste noodle soup specialist has been doling out its namesake dish for more than four decades.

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