Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

A French museum of wrought iron.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

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

This artistic fountain display pays homage to this area's theatrical history.

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

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

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

The second-highest train station in Europe.

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

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

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

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

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

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

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

A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.

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

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

If James Bond bungee-jumped off the side of a 720-foot dam, would you do it too?

The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.

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

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.