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

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

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

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

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

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

Walk through a restaurant's refrigerator door to reach this hidden bar.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

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.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.

Every summer, an open-air swimming pool appears at the base of a Finnish city's beloved winter attraction.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.