Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

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

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