Places stenaavel Wants to Go

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

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

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

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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

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

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

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

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

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

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

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

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

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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