Places moonlightpearls Wants to Go

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

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

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

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

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.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

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.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

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

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

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

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

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.

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

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