Places jbedigian Wants to Go

A huge teapot illuminates a home for the elderly.

A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.

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

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

Switzerland's oldest public observatory is an important part of the Zurich cityscape.

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

This massive boulder was hurled into a Zurich church when a gunpowder depot was struck by lightning in 1652.

A 30-foot-high stream of chocolate flows continuously at the Lindt Home of Chocolate.

Visitors may notice something strange walking through this quaint German town.

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

A journey through every aspect of the human body.

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

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

The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.

The world's largest collection of fire-fighting items dating back almost 350 years.

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

One of the few places in the world that let's you legally relieve yourself on a UNESCO world heritage site.

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

The skeleton of a 19th-century elephant that was executed by cannonball.

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

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

This bunny-eared Moses represents an attempted compromise between two biblical interpretations.