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

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

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

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

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

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

Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.