A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A permanent exhibition honors Queen, which recorded seven albums at the casino-based studio, including “Under Pressure” with David Bowie.

This statue pays tribute to the iconic musician in the place where he recorded his final studio album.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

Created by a pair of artists, this former hotel was designed to provide a minimum of everything including comfort.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

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

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

Where Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" and John William Polidori's "The Vampyre" were born.

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

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

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

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

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

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

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.