Places White Rat Wants to Go

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

This charming fountain honors Felix Salten, the creator of the iconic storybook deer.

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

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

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.

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.

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

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

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

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

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.