Places kitvishnu Wants to Go

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

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

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

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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

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

The largest underground lake in Europe.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

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.

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.

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

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

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

We're not in Kansas anymore: the Strabag headquarters has a playful upside-down addition.

This region of Slovakia boasts some of the most plentiful opal mines in the world.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.