Where Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" were born.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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

A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

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

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

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.

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

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

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

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

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

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

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