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

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.

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

The excellent Swiss museum of witchcraft is led by a modern witch.

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

The largest underground lake in Europe.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

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

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

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

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

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

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

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

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

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