A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

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

An amazing clockwork museum in the Val de Travers holds examples of various prestigious legacies horological history.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

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.

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

One of the world's most complex timepieces.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.