Vitra Design Museum

Nowhere else packs this much design and architecture into one walk. Frank Gehry's museum building, his first project in Europe, hosts two major temporary exhibitions a year, while the Herzog & de Meuron Schaudepot keeps about 400 key objects from the collection on show, the best single room anywhere for a crash course in modern furniture. The campus is the bonus: the Fire Station, Zaha Hadid's first full-scale building, and the Conference Pavilion, Tadao Ando's first work outside Japan. Many campus buildings can only be seen on the Architecture Tour, so book one and give the trip a full day. Weil am Rhein is on the German side of the border, with a tram link to Basel within walking distance of the campus.