One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

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

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

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

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

Standing stones found on a construction site are re-erected.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.

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

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Massive volcano in the Andes is the farthest point from earth's center.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.