An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

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

Museum featuring strange and enchanting toys of the past.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

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

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

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

Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.

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

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

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.

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

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

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.

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

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

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