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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

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

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

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

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.

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

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

The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

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

Constructed along the shores of Lake Zurich, this pavilion is a walk-through work of art.

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

In memory of The Blur Building, the temporary exhibition pavilion of vaporous nothingness.

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.

Explore the subjective dream of a hotel.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.