An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.

The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

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

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

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

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

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

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

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

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.