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

Though it may look like a businessman's lost luggage, this case suspended under a highway bridge is actually a contemporary art installation.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

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

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

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

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

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

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

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

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

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

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

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

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

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

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

A memorial to Wellington's well-loved, well-traveled wharf dog.