Places alessandralee Wants to Go

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.

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

Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.

Explore the subjective dream of a hotel.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

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

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

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

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

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.

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

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

This eclectic architectural gem played witness to Zurich’s colonial past.

Europe's largest dinosaur museum was founded by a passionate autodidact.

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