Places kathylamm Wants to Go

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

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

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

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

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

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

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.

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

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.

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

Walk through a restaurant's refrigerator door to reach this hidden bar.

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.

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

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

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

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

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

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

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

Two standing giants remain as a tribute to Luxembourg's metallurgical past.