These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

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

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

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

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

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

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

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

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

A magnificent collection of imperial armor and weaponry.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.