Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Amusement parks
Ułęż
Instead of merry-go-rounds and plastic slides – wooden structures, pine cones under bare feet and a mud kitchen by a pond. Explorers' Forest (Las Odkrywców) in Ułęż (Ryki County) is a family adventure park laid out in 6 hectares of real wo…
Gardens
Janowiec
A few kilometres from Kazimierz Dolny, in the village of Trzcianki near Janowiec, lies Poland's first family theme park. Magiczne Ogrody – the Magic Gardens – opened on 23 May 2014 on 18 hectares of landscaped ground planted with around a…
Museums
Kazimierz Dolny
The Natural History Museum in Kazimierz Dolny occupies a striking late-16th-century granary on the Vistula, and it is one of the best things to do in Kazimierz Dolny with kids or on a rainy day. Inside, exhibits explain the river gorge, th…
Museums
Lublin
The Lublin Open-Air Village Museum (Muzeum Wsi Lubelskiej) is one of the largest open-air museums in Poland: around 27 hectares (67 acres) of wooden cottages, manor houses, windmills, an Eastern Catholic church and a reconstructed prewar s…
Zoos
Zamość
The Stefan Miler Zoo in Zamość (say "ZAH-moshch") is the only zoo in Poland's Lublin region and one of its most popular family attractions, with about 200,000 visitors a year. It sits just 1 km from the Renaissance market square of this UN…
Caves
Chełm
The Chełm Chalk Tunnels (say HWEM, with a soft h) are a maze of passages cut into chalk beneath the Old Town of Chełm in eastern Poland, billed as unique in Europe. Locals mined chalk here for centuries, and part of the old workings is now…