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

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

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

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

A unique collection of Swiss art brut and naïve art displayed in an old warehouse.

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

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

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

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

The excellent Swiss museum of witchcraft is led by a modern witch.

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

A 13th-century Swiss castle houses a collection of artifacts from the Polish diaspora.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

This colossal couch is an unlikely monument to Europe's first female Doctor of Law.

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

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

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

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.