An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

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

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

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.

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

Constructed along the shores of Lake Zurich, this pavilion is a walk-through work of art.

The only tower of an aerial tramway standing over a ski-lift.

A 13th-century Swiss castle houses a collection of artifacts from the Polish diaspora.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

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

Museum featuring strange and enchanting toys of the past.

This charming fountain honors Felix Salten, the creator of the iconic storybook deer.

Europe's largest dinosaur museum was founded by a passionate autodidact.

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

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

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

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.