Location: Lucerne

The Bürgenstock is a mountain in Switzerland that rises to an altitude of 1,115 metres (3,658 feet). It sits on the lakeshore of Lucerne, though not quite at its centre. There is a resort on the same mountain called Bürgenstock, and it sits at an altitude of 874 metres above…

Engelberg is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Obwalden and a small mountain tourist town. The municipality also include the communities of Grafenort, Oberberg, and Schwand in addition to Engelberg itself. Engelberg's municipality is an outlier of Obwalden, surrounded by Bern and Nidwalden and Uri cantons. Engelberg, in central…

Located in the geographic centre of Switzerland, Lake Lucerne (German: Vierwaldstaetter See) is the country's fourth-largest lake.

The Kapellbrücke (literally, Chapel Bridge) is a covered wooden footbridge in Lucerne, Switzerland, that spans the Reuss River diagonally. The bridge, named after the nearby St. Peter's Chapel, is unusual in that it contains a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th century, but several of them, along…

The Lion Monument in Lucerne is a massive dying lion cut out of a sandstone rock wall over a pond in the medieval town's east end. It was built as a tribute to the mercenary soldiers from central Switzerland who died while serving King Louis XVI of France during the…