Vienna, Austria
Clock Museum
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
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Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Le Locle, Switzerland
An amazing clockwork museum in the Val de Travers holds examples of various prestigious legacies horological history.
Seegräben, Switzerland
Europe's largest dinosaur museum was founded by a passionate autodidact.
Leuk, Switzerland
A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.
Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.
Evionnaz, Switzerland
World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.
Gland, Switzerland
This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.
Habsburg, Switzerland
An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.
Geneva, Switzerland
This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.
Lac Léman, Switzerland
A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.
Schwyz, Switzerland
The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.
Meyrin, Switzerland
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
Berlin, Germany
For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.
Berlin, Germany
Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.
Cochem, Germany
This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.
Tübingen, Germany
This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.
Berlin, Germany
An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.
Lützen, Germany
A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.
Chemnitz, Germany
One of the largest busts in the world celebrates the German city's erstwhile namesake.
Mettlach, Germany
Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."
Schorfheide, Germany
This former Soviet military base has over 10 original aircraft and an enormous amount of memorabilia on display.