Basel, Switzerland
Spielzeug Welten Museum
An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.
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Basel, Switzerland
An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.
Zug, Switzerland
Walk down these stairs to get an underwater view of Switzerland's Lake Zug.
Naters, Switzerland
This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.
Degersheim, Switzerland
A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.
Basel, Switzerland
One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.
Sissach, Switzerland
Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.
Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.
Leuk, Switzerland
A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.
Ostermundigen, Switzerland
This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.
Gränichen, Switzerland
The excellent Swiss museum of witchcraft is led by a modern witch.
Lac Léman, Switzerland
A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.
Saint-Léonard, Switzerland
The largest underground lake in Europe.
Dietikon, Switzerland
A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.
Zurich, Switzerland
Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.
Zurich, Switzerland
Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.
Martigny, Switzerland
Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.
Leuk, Switzerland
For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Schattenhalb, Switzerland
The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.
St. Gallen, Switzerland
This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.
Gadmen, Switzerland
This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.