Created by a pair of artists, this former hotel was designed to provide a minimum of everything including comfort.

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

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

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

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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

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

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

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

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

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

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

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

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

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

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

As the highest point in the Mid-Atlantic range this stratovolcano offers spectacular views.

Indigenous cultures believed all life would end if this enormous rock toppled.

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.