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Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

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

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

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

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

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

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

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

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

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

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.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

Amid rushing rapids, this small bit of land is an important First Nations site on border between Canada and the United States.

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

A huge Megalithic chamber tomb located behind a cafe.