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

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

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

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

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

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

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

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

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

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

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

An amazing collection of rare wind instruments where visitors can give the iconic Swiss Alphorn a toot.

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.

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

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

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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