Places vmhenshaw Wants to Go

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

Europe's largest dinosaur museum was founded by a passionate autodidact.

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

Museum featuring strange and enchanting toys of the past.

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

This unique preservation is one of the only taxidermies in the world made with real whale skin.

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

An amazing clockwork museum in the Val de Travers holds examples of various prestigious legacies horological history.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.

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

Walk through a restaurant's refrigerator door to reach this hidden bar.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

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

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

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

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

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

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.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.