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

This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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

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

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

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

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

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

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

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

A peace symbol in Northern Ireland is among the world's largest hedge mazes.

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.