Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

A field of whimsical floats, where all of your favorite childhood stories have been put out to pasture.

A sprawling network of century-old subterranean catacombs lies beneath a nondescript suburban home.

This shrine is dedicated to a symbol of the Maya people's struggle against inequality and injustice.

If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.

According to legend, this hacienda was abandoned because of a curse.

An island graveyard with spectacular views of the Caribbean.

A century ago, aspiring socialites climbed on this cement beast with the hopes of marrying a millionaire.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.

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

Executed at age 19, this Vietnamese schoolgirl is now a national hero and symbol of revolutionary spirit.

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

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

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

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.