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

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

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

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

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.

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

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

270 million year-old forest of stone.

The highest monastery in the world operates a tiny guesthouse with doors open to all.

Described as "the world's most blinging pool."

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.