A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.

Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

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

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

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

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

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

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

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

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

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

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

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

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

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.