Places Shastified Wants to Go

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.

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.

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

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

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

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

An old mining site that is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A massive horizontal lever press comprising parts from the 17th century.