Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

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

A sculpture park that takes the use of clay to a whole new level.

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

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

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

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.