Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.

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

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

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

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

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

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

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