Birgu, Malta
Prison in Fort Saint Angelo
This almost-forgotten underground dungeon housed several convicts over the years, including Caravaggio.
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Birgu, Malta
This almost-forgotten underground dungeon housed several convicts over the years, including Caravaggio.
Mdina, Malta
This unique building in the main square stands out among the city's typically Baroque architecture.
Birgu, Malta
The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.
Victoria, Malta
This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.
Paola, Malta
This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.
Qrendi, Malta
This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.
Mellieħa, Malta
An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.
Zurich, Switzerland
Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.
Ascona, Switzerland
The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.
Bern, Switzerland
Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.
Bern, Switzerland
The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.
Bodio, Switzerland
The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.
Bern, Switzerland
Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.
Gland, Switzerland
This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.
Ennenda, Switzerland
The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.
Lac Léman, Switzerland
A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.
Vallorbe, Switzerland
Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.
Bern, Switzerland
This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Andermatt, Switzerland
A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.
Schattenhalb, Switzerland
The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.
St. Gallen, Switzerland
This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.