Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Thermal baths & water parks
Sopot
The water in Sopot's aquapark does not come from the mains. Since 10 September 2016 it has been drawn from the park's own 116.4 m deep well, tapping an Oligocene aquifer, and in the pools it is around 32°C. Aquapark Sopot in the Kamienny P…
Thermal baths & water parks
Wrocław
Aquapark Wrocław on Borowska Street is the city's largest water park and one of the busiest in Poland, welcoming about 2.5 million visitors in 2025. Under one roof you will find leisure pools with a wave pool and lazy river, a set of water…
Churches & monasteries
Gdańsk
Oliwa Cathedral in Gdańsk (Archikatedra Oliwska, pronounced roughly "oh-LEE-vah") is a former Cistercian abbey church, the longest church in Poland and home to a famous Rococo organ whose carved angels and stars actually move as it plays.…
Churches & monasteries
Częstochowa
The Archcathedral of the Holy Family in Częstochowa (say "chen-stoh-HOH-vah") is one of the largest churches in Poland: a neo-Gothic red-brick basilica with twin spires over 80 m (260 ft) tall, standing just a few minutes' walk from the ci…
Amusement parks
Łódź
Arena Laser Games in Łódź (say: WOODGE) is an indoor laser tag arena inside Manufaktura, the city's huge entertainment complex built in a restored 19th-century textile mill. Run by the Experymentarium science center, it swaps paintballs fo…
Mountains & peaks
Soblówka
Poland's first PTTK "bacówka" – a small mountain hut – was supposed to be flown up to the meadow in one piece by helicopter from the village of Soblówka. That proved technically impossible, so the wooden hut was built on site on Hala Rycer…
Mountains & peaks
Jastrzębik
Bacówka nad Wierchomlą is a small PTTK mountain hut in the Sądecki Beskids, set in a broad clearing at 887 m above sea level on the trail between Runek and Pusta Wielka. From the clearing you can see the Radziejowa range and, on clear days…
Mountains & peaks
Koniaków
In the hamlet of Szańce in Koniaków, the Kohut family runs a Shepherding Centre: a wooden shepherd's hut, known locally as the "kolyba", a highlander shop and an educational farm with sheep and goats. The farm practises traditional grazing…
Amusement parks
Katowice
Bajka Pana Kleksa (Mr Blot's Fairy Tale) is a family centre for play and learning in the former Porcelain Factory in Katowice: more than 1,400 m² of puzzles, experiments and sets inspired by Jan Brzechwa's novels about Professor Klex. It i…
Amusement parks
Bałtów
The Bałtów Tourist Complex began in 2004 with a dinosaur trail, and according to its owner it now covers around 100 hectares in the Kamienna valley. There is a safari park toured in American school buses, a European bison enclosure, a mini…
Thermal baths & water parks
solec-zdroj
Baseny Mineralne (Mineral Pools) in Solec-Zdrój (say "SOH-lets ZDROOY") is a year-round pool, sauna and health complex in a small spa village in southern Poland, famous for some of the strongest sulfur waters in the country. Its star attra…
Fortifications
Częstochowa
The walls of St Roch's Bastion still bear the marks of Swedish cannonballs from the siege of Jasna Góra in 1655. This massive, many-sided bastion at the north-western corner of the former Jasna Góra fortress was built in 1631–1636. Its old…
Landmarks
Żnin
In the middle of Plac Wolności in Żnin stands a massive Gothic tower that everyone calls the Baszta, or bastion – although it was never part of the town walls. It is the only surviving piece of the medieval town hall, built so that the tow…
Museums
Głogówek
At the very bottom of the tower was an unlit dungeon with a chain fixed to the wall – and that is where the Prison Tower in Głogówek got its name. This square brick tower next to the Castle Gate is one of the few surviving parts of the tow…
Churches & monasteries
Szczecin
The Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Szczecin (pronounced roughly "SHCHEH-cheen") is the city's mother church and one of the great brick Gothic landmarks of the Baltic coast. Its spire rises just over 110 meters (361 ft), making it the s…
Churches & monasteries
Kraków
The Dominican Basilica in Kraków – the Basilica of the Holy Trinity on Stolarska Street – is a soaring Gothic brick church just a few minutes from the Main Market Square. Dominican friars have been based here since 1222, and the church is…
Churches & monasteries
Kraków
The Franciscan Basilica in Kraków – formally the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, on All Saints' Square (plac Wszystkich Świętych) – is one of the oldest churches in the Old Town and a must for anyone who loves Art Nouveau. Its interior…
Churches & monasteries
Legnickie Pole
The Basilica and Abbey in Legnickie Pole (say "leg-NEETS-kyeh POH-leh"; German: Wahlstatt) is a Baroque former Benedictine monastery in Lower Silesia, built on the site of the Battle of Legnica — the 1241 clash in which a Polish-led army w…
Churches & monasteries
Trzebnica
The Basilica and Sanctuary of St. Hedwig in Trzebnica (say "tsheb-NEE-tsah") is Silesia's oldest shrine and the resting place of St. Hedwig of Silesia, patron saint of the region. A Romanesque brick church from the early 13th century, the…
Churches & monasteries
Inowrocław
Locals in Inowrocław still call this church "the Ruin", even though it has had a roof again for more than a century and serves as a parish church. Built of granite blocks between 1180 and 1230, it is the oldest church in the town and one o…
Churches & monasteries
Dobre Miasto
The Collegiate Basilica in Dobre Miasto (DOH-breh MYAH-sto, "Good Town") is a 14th-century Gothic complex and the second largest church in Warmia, northern Poland. A red-brick church with a tall tower stands inside a compact quadrangle of…
Churches & monasteries
Pułtusk
The Collegiate Basilica of the Annunciation in Pułtusk (pronounced "poo-WTOOSK") is one of Mazovia's finest churches and an official Polish "Monument of History". The Gothic and Renaissance building is famous for the "Pułtusk vault", a Ren…
Churches & monasteries
Kołobrzeg
The Co-Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Kołobrzeg (say "koh-WOH-bzheg") is the Baltic resort town's greatest monument: a five-aisled Gothic brick church whose massive tower block rises over the old town. Inside are rare medieval tre…
Churches & monasteries
Chełm
The white towers and green dome on top of Chełm Hill are visible from far away, and the building itself bears the marks of three Christian traditions. It was built in the 18th century as a Uniate (Greek Catholic) cathedral, turned into a R…