Arosa in Switzerland, ski resort with magnificent and addicting slopes
A decade after this discovery, around 1900, the area became a winter ski resort, with a ski elevator and cable car installed in 1938 and 1956. Before all of this, however, great mystery writer Arthur Conan Doyle sought sanctuary here before the resort was the du jour thing to do. With guides in tote, he would go walking around the snow and mountains for hours on end, once skiing down the Maienfelder Furka Pass.