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

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

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

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.