This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

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

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

This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.

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

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

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

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

This massive boulder was hurled into a Zurich church when a gunpowder depot was struck by lightning in 1652.

Museum featuring strange and enchanting toys of the past.

This eclectic architectural gem played witness to Zurich’s colonial past.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

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