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

Explore the subjective dream of a hotel.

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

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

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

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

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

Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

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.

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

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

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

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

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

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

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

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

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

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

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.