Places kathylamm Wants to Go

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Though it may look like a businessman's lost luggage, this case suspended under a highway bridge is actually a contemporary art installation.

Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

Constructed along the shores of Lake Zurich, this pavilion is a walk-through work of art.

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

Part of this hotel resides in Switzerland, the other in France, and the border splits the honeymoon suite.

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

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

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

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

This unique preservation is one of the only taxidermies in the world made with real whale skin.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

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

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

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

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

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

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

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.