One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

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

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

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

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

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

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.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

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

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

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

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

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

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.