This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

This statue pays tribute to the iconic musician in the place where he recorded his final studio album.

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

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

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

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

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

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

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

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.