Cologny, Switzerland
The Bodmer Library
A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.
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Cologny, Switzerland
A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.
Ascona, Switzerland
The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.
Geneva, Switzerland
One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.
Geneva, Switzerland
Walk through a restaurant's refrigerator door to reach this hidden bar.
Vallorbe, Switzerland
Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.
Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Dungeness, England
An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
London, England
Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.
London, England
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
London, England
This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
London, England
Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.
London, England
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.
Ecublens, Switzerland
The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.
Cologny, Switzerland
Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.
Geneva, Switzerland
This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.
Geneva, Switzerland
A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.