Places 452trvl Wants to Go

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

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

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

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

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

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

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

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

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

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

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.