Places cbrown Wants to Go

Museum featuring strange and enchanting toys of the past.

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

Standing stones found on a construction site are re-erected.

This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.

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

The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.

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

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

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

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

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

The excellent Swiss museum of witchcraft is led by a modern witch.

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

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

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

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

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

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.