Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

Constructed along the shores of Lake Zurich, this pavilion is a walk-through work of art.

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

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

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

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

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

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

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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

The largest underground lake in Europe.

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

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

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

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

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

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

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