Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Nature
gmina Gryfino
More than fifty pine trees turn sharply sideways just above the ground, run almost horizontally for a while and then shoot straight up again. The Crooked Forest (Krzywy Las) near Gryfino was planted in the 1930s, and nobody knows for sure…
Lakes
Kamień Pomorski
From the waterfront in Kamień Pomorski you look out over flat water, reed beds and a green island – and in the shallows off that island lies a granite giant carried here from Sweden by an ice sheet. Kamień Lagoon (Zalew Kamieński) is a wid…
Other
Międzyzdroje
The Walk of Fame in Międzyzdroje (say "myen-dzih-ZDRO-yeh"), known in Polish as Aleja Gwiazd, is Poland's answer to Hollywood's famous sidewalk: more than 200 bronze handprints of Polish actors, musicians and directors set into the seaside…
Amusement parks
Międzyzdroje
The Baltic Miniature Park at ul. Nowomyśliwska 98 in Międzyzdroje takes you around the Baltic Sea in 45 minutes. Models of monuments and lighthouses from nine countries are built at a scale of 1:25 and placed according to their real locati…
Museums
Międzyzdroje
The Wax Figures Museum in Międzyzdroje (pronounced roughly "myen-dzi-ZDROY-eh") is a popular indoor attraction in one of Poland's best-known Baltic Sea resorts, on the island of Wolin near the German border. Set on the promenade a few step…
Museums
Kołobrzeg
The Kołobrzeg Maritime Open-Air Museum (Kołobrzeski Skansen Morski) is an outdoor branch of the Museum of Polish Arms in the town's fishing port. Its stars are two Polish Navy warships standing on dry land that you can climb aboard, along…
Museums
Świnoujście
The Sea Fishing Museum (Muzeum Rybołówstwa Morskiego) in Świnoujście occupies the town's oldest building, the former town hall from the early 1800s on Plac Rybaka (Fisherman's Square), right by the Świna River waterfront. It is a compact m…
Museums
Szczecin
Inside a tram depot from 1913 in Szczecin's Niemierzyn district you will find Stoewer cars, Junak motorcycles, trams and Polish prototype vehicles that never went into production. The Museum of Technology and Transport – known locally as t…
Technical monuments
Gryfice
The Seaside Narrow Gauge Railway (Nadmorska Kolej Wąskotorowa) in Gryfice is one of Poland's most popular heritage railways. Its 1,000 mm gauge trains run from the town of Gryfice through the Baltic resorts of Trzęsacz, Rewal and Niechorze…
Zoos
Międzyzdroje
The Międzyzdroje Oceanarium (roughly "myen-dzy-ZDRO-yeh") is an indoor public aquarium in the heart of Poland's best-known resort on Wolin Island, a short walk from the beach and the pier. Across some 3,000 m² you'll see sharks, moray eels…
Amusement parks
Dziwnów
The Świnoujście lighthouse stands 6.48 m tall here, while the one from Jastarnia is shorter than an adult – at the Seaside Miniature and Railway Park in Dziwnów nearly 30 lighthouses of the Polish coast are reproduced at a scale of 1:10. B…
Zoos
Międzyzdroje
The European Bison Show Reserve in Międzyzdroje (Zagroda Pokazowa Żubrów; say "myen-dzy-ZDROH-yeh") is a breeding enclosure for European bison run by Wolin National Park, set in the forest on the edge of this Baltic resort. Besides a small…
Castles
Stare Drawsko
Drahim Castle (Zamek Drahim) in Stare Drawsko is a 14th-century Gothic stronghold built by the Knights Hospitaller on a narrow strip of land between two lakes in northwestern Poland. Today it is a picturesque ruin with a re-created medieva…