Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum

This guide to the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum follows the legend of Hua Tieu Lan, the youngest daughter of pawnbroker Hui Bon Hoa, said to have been hidden away in an upstairs room of this mansion and never seen in public again. You'll hear the whispered reason behind her disappearance, and how a 1973 film turned the rumor into a citywide sensation. It also traces the real Hui Bon Hoa, who arrived from China with nothing and built a fortune that funded this Art Deco mansion between 1929 and 1934. Look up at the shuttered upper windows as you listen.