The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

In memory of The Blur Building, the temporary exhibition pavilion of vaporous nothingness.

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.

This large sculpture of white plates and forms is actually a huge sound amplifier.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

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

Constructed along the shores of Lake Zurich, this pavilion is a walk-through work of art.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

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

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.

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

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

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

This eclectic architectural gem played witness to Zurich’s colonial past.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

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

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

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

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

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

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.