Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

An IT-specialist-turned-farmer reintroduces an Austrian food tradition while promoting snails as a sustainable "future food" option.

This ferry carries passengers across the Rhine propelled by no engine or paddles but by the river's current.

This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.

The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.

A journey through every aspect of the human body.

Switzerland's oldest public observatory is an important part of the Zurich cityscape.

This massive boulder was hurled into a Zurich church when a gunpowder depot was struck by lightning in 1652.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

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

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

This charming fountain honors Felix Salten, the creator of the iconic storybook deer.

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

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

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

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

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

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

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