The famously neutral nation of Switzerland packed many of its border bridges with TNT during the Cold War in the event of a Soviet ground invasion. The Swiss finally got around to clearing out the last of the explosives in 2014.

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19 Places That Exemplify Cool Swiss Style

From the Yellow House to the Kirchner Museum, these buildings offer a vision of what Swiss architectural style means. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die, edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in