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

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

A tower-like theater in the Swiss Alps built to withstand the high winds and avalanches of the mountain pass.

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

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

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

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

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

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

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

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

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

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

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

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

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

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

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

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

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