"The town and the falls are known worldwide as the setting for a fictional event: it is the location where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s hero, Sherlock Holmes, fights to the death with Professor Moriarty, at the end of “The Final Problem”, first published in 1893. A memorial plate at the funicular station commemorates Holmes and there is also a Sherlock Holmes museum in the nearby town of Meiringen." From the story: “It is, indeed, a fearful place. The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house.” You can read the whole story where Doyle killed off his hero, Sherlock Holmes in a struggle with Moriarty, here: https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/pdf/a4/1-sided/fina.pdf
Reichenbach Falls is well-known world-wide:
"The town and the falls are known worldwide as the setting for a fictional event: it is the location where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s hero, Sherlock Holmes, fights to the death with Professor Moriarty, at the end of “The Final Problem”, first published in 1893. A memorial plate at the funicular station commemorates Holmes and there is also a Sherlock Holmes museum in the nearby town of Meiringen." From the story: “It is, indeed, a fearful place. The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house.” You can read the whole story where Doyle killed off his hero, Sherlock Holmes in a struggle with Moriarty, here: https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/pdf/a4/1-sided/fina.pdf