Switzerland

A high glacier saddle between the Jungfrau and Mönch peaks in the Bernese Alps, served by Europe's highest railway station and a panoramic observation complex at 3,454 metres.

Lake Geneva — Léman — stretches across 580 km² of alpine water between Switzerland and France, with Montreux, the jewel of the Vaud Riviera, set along its north-eastern shore beneath the Alps and anchored by the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival each July.

Nestled at the foot of the Bernese Alps, the Lauterbrunnen Valley is a deep U-shaped glacial valley in the canton of Bern famed for its 72 waterfalls, dramatic cliff walls, and proximity to the iconic Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau peaks — one of Switzerland's most spectacular natural landscapes.

Lucerne's Altstadt (Old Town) is one of Switzerland's most intact medieval urban nuclei, a lattice of narrow lanes, painted façades and half-timber houses perched above the Reuss river, retaining eight of its original watch towers and the city's oldest churches — all within sight of Lake Lucerne and the Alps.

The Matterhorn — a near-perfect pyramid peak rising 4,478 metres on the Swiss-Italian border — towers above the car-free resort town of Zermatt in the Valais canton, one of the world's most celebrated mountain silhouettes and year-round ski destinations.

The Rhine Falls — Europe's most powerful waterfall — thunders over a 150-metre-wide Jurassic limestone shelf on the High Rhine, straddling the Swiss cantons of Schaffhausen and Zurich near the medieval castles of Laufen and Wörth, a spectacle that has drawn visitors since the Age of Enlightenment.