With Halloween looming and long winter nights setting in, now is perhaps an appropriately eerie time to contemplate a visit to the bucolic and lilting countryside around the idyllic medieval village of Gruyeres in southwestern Switzerland. Not for its crisp clean air, the stunning panoramas, or even the fondue – but for something far more sinister.
Considerably creepier than a dead-leaf-crunching hike through an alpine forest … definitely darker than the pitch-black sky of a rural retreat where scarce any light pollution invades the opaque night … and way nuttier than the fabulously tasty Gruyere cheese for which this region is so famous, the Museum HR Giger bids a beguiling welcome to fan aficionados with a penchant for the macbre.