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Underneath the well-known Lindenhof hides a secret cellar documenting Zurich's early history.

One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.

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

Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

This medieval footbridge in the Swiss Alps is known to attract cliff-jumping daredevils.

If James Bond bungee-jumped off the side of a 720-foot dam, would you do it too?

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.

Explore the five senses depicted on this protruding Gothic window.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

Everything from alchemy books to building plans for the Eiffel Tower are housed inside this museum.

A rare museum dedicated to a rather overlooked material in the history of fashion.

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

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

This unique preservation is one of the only taxidermies in the world made with real whale skin.

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

The only tower of an aerial tramway standing over a ski-lift.

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

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.

A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.