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

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

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

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

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

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

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

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

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.