The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

Standing stones found on a construction site are re-erected.

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

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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

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

This colossal couch is an unlikely monument to Europe's first female Doctor of Law.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

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

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

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.

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

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

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

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

Made famous by 'Star Wars,' these troglodyte homes face an uncertain future.

The Slovenian architect designed many landmarks in the capital city, including his own dream house.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.