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This colossal couch is an unlikely monument to Europe's first female Doctor of Law.

Created by a pair of artists, this former hotel was designed to provide a minimum of everything including comfort.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

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

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

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.

This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.

Museum featuring strange and enchanting toys of the past.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

This unique preservation is one of the only taxidermies in the world made with real whale skin.

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

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

Explore the subjective dream of a hotel.

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

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

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

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

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

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

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

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

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