Indagare Tours: Reunification Palace

Touring the former South Vietnamese presidential palace, recognizable to many from old photographs depicting the fall of Saigon in 1975, this four-floor building is best visited with a guide or historian. Don’t miss the eerie, double-story basement, whose claustrophobic rooms are stuffed with old military equipment, radios and faded maps. It may be Ho Chi Minh City’s most famous sight but there is not a ton left to see; it’s more about an emotional response to this sight in whose deserted halls the destiny of so many American and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians was decided.