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

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

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

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

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

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

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

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

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

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

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

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

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

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

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

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

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