Places icarus404 Wants to Go

A treasure trove of scientific instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

If James Bond bungee-jumped off the side of a 720-foot dam, would you do it too?

This large sculpture of white plates and forms is actually a huge sound amplifier.

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

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

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.

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

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

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

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

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

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

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