Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

This building was once a town hall, a fire station, a prison, a dairy market, and the target for two marksmen.

In memory of The Blur Building, the temporary exhibition pavilion of vaporous nothingness.

The remains of St. Lucius of Chur were said to be kept in this crypt for several centuries.

Created by a pair of artists, this former hotel was designed to provide a minimum of everything including comfort.

Museum featuring strange and enchanting toys of the past.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

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

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

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

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

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

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

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

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

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

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

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

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

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

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

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

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.