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This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

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

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

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

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

The second-highest train station in Europe.

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

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

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

This statue pays tribute to the iconic musician in the place where he recorded his final studio album.

A permanent exhibition honors Queen, which recorded seven albums at the casino-based studio, including “Under Pressure” with David Bowie.

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

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

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

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A tower-like theater in the Swiss Alps built to withstand the high winds and avalanches of the mountain pass.

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

The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

This eclectic architectural gem played witness to Zurich’s colonial past.