Places Pengwn Wants to Go

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

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

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

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

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

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

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

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

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

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

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

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

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

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

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

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

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.