Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

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

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.

Though it may look like a businessman's lost luggage, this case suspended under a highway bridge is actually a contemporary art installation.

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

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

This eclectic architectural gem played witness to Zurich’s colonial past.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

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

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

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

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

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

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

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

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

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

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

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

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

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

A controversial artwork draws attention to the dark history of Prague's "Suicide Bridge."