An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

Along the Rhine, about a mile from the historic Munster, learn the heartrending story of two lovers torn asunder, cast into unknown layers of time and space.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

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

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.

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

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Massive, unfinished broadcasting station stands as a monument to the fall of communism.

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.