Its collection commemorates the author of the iconic children's book "Heidi."

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

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

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

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.

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

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

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

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

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

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

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

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

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

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

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

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

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.