A 666-metre steel dragon arches over the Han River, its scaled body lit gold at night on the way to the coast road.
Free
The dragon's head roars fire in short bursts then switches to a fine water spray, a free weekend-night spectacle best watched from the Bach Dang riverside.
Free
The world's largest collection of Cham sandstone carvings, displayed inside a 1919 French colonial building a few blocks from the Han River.
from VND 60,000
Five marble-and-limestone hills named for the elements, honeycombed with Buddhist grottoes and stone-carving workshops clustered at the base of Thuy Son.
from VND 40,000
The largest grotto inside Thuy Son mountain, where a shaft of natural light falls on a three-metre stone Buddha and where wartime guerrillas once sheltered wounded soldiers.
from VND 40,000
A deliberately unsettling passage on Thuy Son staged as the Buddhist underworld, its dim chambers carved with tableaux of judgment meant to test visitors' nerve.
from VND 20,000
Vietnam's tallest Lady Buddha statue, 67 metres of white stone facing the East Sea from the forested slopes of Son Tra, beside a still-active working pagoda.
Free
Two giant weathered stone hands appear to lift a gilded pedestrian walkway out of the mountainside mist, 1,400 metres up at the Sun World Bà Nà Hills resort.
from VND 1,000,000
A curved wooden bridge-temple raised by Hoi An's 17th-century Japanese merchant community, guarded by carved dog and monkey statues at either end and recently restored to its original paint scheme.
from VND 120,000
A 200-year-old merchant house mixing Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese design, whose owners still remove a section of upper flooring each flood season using its original beam-and-pulley system.
from VND 120,000
A merchant house standing since the 1780s a few steps from the Japanese Bridge, its upper floor still lined with the family's original carved wooden furniture.
from VND 120,000
A red-and-gold Chinese temple built in 1653 honouring the war deity Quan Cong, its main altar flanked by large painted horse statues said to be his mounts.
from VND 120,000
The grandest of Hoi An's Chinese congregation halls, built by Fujianese traders around an elaborate triple gate and an inner shrine to Thien Hau, goddess of seafarers.
from VND 120,000
A restored wooden trading house whose two small galleries display shipwreck-recovered ceramics tracing Hoi An's place on the maritime Silk Road from the 9th to 17th centuries.
from VND 120,000
A wood-carved Chinese congregation hall dedicated to the god of good fortune, holding some of Old Town's finest gilded relief panels depicting scenes from Chinese legend.
from VND 120,000
A Chinese congregation hall built by Guangdong traders in the late 1800s, its courtyard fountain coiled by a ceramic-mosaic dragon pieced together from broken bowls.
from VND 120,000
A compact riverside museum tracing Hoi An from Sa Huynh-era burial jars through the Cham era to its 16th-18th century heyday as an international trading port.
from VND 120,000
French photographer Réhahn's free gallery of life-size portraits documenting Vietnam's 54 recognised ethnic groups, displayed alongside the traditional costumes worn in them.
Free
A recreated village of old Hoi An across the river on An Hoi islet, building each evening to an outdoor river show with hundreds of costumed performers, boats and lantern-lit water scenes.
from VND 350,000
A hands-on class in Old Town where a silk-lantern maker walks visitors through splitting bamboo ribs, bending the frame and stretching dyed silk over it to take one home.
from VND 368,000
Round woven basket boats spin and bob through narrow water-coconut palm canals in a village once used as a Viet Cong hideout, usually with a boatman singing and deliberately spinning the boat for laughs.
from VND 90,000
A working herb-and-vegetable hamlet on sandy soil enriched with algae from the adjacent lagoon, where visitors can hoe a bed, water it with wooden yoke-buckets and join a farmer-led cooking session.
from VND 10,000
A market-to-table cooking course that starts with a guided walk through Hoi An's central market, then a short boat ride out to a riverside school for a hands-on Vietnamese menu.
from VND 890,000
Pink French-built church, also called Rooster Church, with a bell tower; free entry · 156 Trần Phú
Traces the city's history in order, from ancient times through the wars to the present · 31 Trần Phú
Three floors of traditional crafts and contemporary art, including paintings and lacquer work · 78 Lê Duẩn
Covers the Fifth Military Zone's wartime role and Ho Chi Minh's life, with military equipment outdoors · 3 Duy Tân
Heritage garden with wooden houses, tribal artefacts and ceramics · Hoàng Sa, Thọ Quang
Interactive museum of 3D murals and optical illusions made for photos · Lô 10 Trần Nhân Tông, Thọ Quang
Night market on the east side of Dragon Bridge with handmade crafts, souvenirs, clothes and street food · Mai Hắc Đế
Family amusement centre in the Helio complex, with games and rides for children · 01 Đường 2 Tháng 9, Hòa Cường
Ancestral chapel built in the early 1800s, mixing Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese design · 21 Lê Lợi
Old merchant house with carved wooden interiors on the Old Town's main street · 77 Trần Phú
Assembly hall of the Chinese community on Tran Phu street, with a courtyard and shrines · 64 Trần Phú
Assembly hall of the Hainanese community on Tran Phu street · 10 Trần Phú
Small museum of artefacts from the prehistoric Sa Huynh culture · 149 Trần Phú
Performing arts venue in the Old Town hosting the Lune Production shows · 1A Nguyễn Phúc Chu
Park of terracotta miniatures of world landmarks, in the pottery village · Thanh Hà
Village in Dien Ban known for traditional bronze casting · Điện Bàn