The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

These 11,000-year-old mounds may be the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas.

This roadside installation gives travelers a chance to stretch their legs. Don't worry—it doesn’t bite!

A small museum dedicated to Vietnam’s lesser-known Iron Age culture.

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

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

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

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

Under Hanoi’s medieval citadel sits a secret military headquarters from the final years of the Vietnam War.

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

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

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

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

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

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

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

Unbeknownst to many, this fountain was erected as a tomb and still holds the remains of a Frenchman.