The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

This stone in Lake Geneva was once the reference point used to determine altitude in Switzerland.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

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

A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

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

The second-highest train station in Europe.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

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

This massive boulder was hurled into a Zurich church when a gunpowder depot was struck by lightning in 1652.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

Switzerland's oldest public observatory is an important part of the Zurich cityscape.