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

The second-highest train station in Europe.

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

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

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

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

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

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

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

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

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.