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Ho Chi Minh Escapes from Madame Tussaud's

Looking-at-old-preserved-dead-guys tourism doesn't top our list of things we like to do on vacation, but sometimes we just can't help ourselves. Take a visit to Hanoi in Vietnam, for example: A solemn trip to Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum is a natural part of your stay. "Uncle Ho" is on display inside a deep dark granite building, modeled after Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow.

Do time your visit carefully, though. For a month each year, the old guy disappears somewhere for "maintenance". He does make it back every time, despite the fact that he actually wanted to be cremated. He must be pretty unimpressed that his body has been getting touched up every year since 1969. We found the old fellow looking a bit like he's long dead. Guess that's because he is.

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