Architectural Oddities in Switzerland

Explore the five senses depicted on this protruding Gothic window.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

In memory of The Blur Building, the temporary exhibition pavilion of vaporous nothingness.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.