Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Museums
Kletno
More than 40 fossilised dinosaur eggs in four nests, some 70 million years old – according to the museum, this is the only place in Poland where you can see such a collection. The Museum of the Earth in Kletno is a private geological museu…
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
Poznań
Poznań New Zoo (Nowe Zoo) is a woodland zoo on the eastern edge of central Poznań, opened in 1974 and covering about 120 hectares of hilly forest with six ponds. It is Poland's second-largest zoo by area. Instead of compact cages you get b…
Amusement parks
Władysławowo
On ul. Żwirowa in Władysławowo you can stand next to a life-size blue whale – the model is 34 metres long and is Ocean Park's signature sight. Across 20 hectares of this seasonal amusement park stand 1:1 models of marine animals, from shar…
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…
Zoos
Gdynia
The map of the Baltic seabed in the Baltic Hall dates back to the opening of this place in 1971, and some of the wall displays from that time are still up to date. Gdynia Aquarium — the official name since 2003 of what visitors often call…
Amusement parks
Brenna
On the slope of Grabowa above Brenna, around the Chata Grabowa mountain hut, the hosts are Svarog, the Noon Witch and the Water Demon. The Fairy-Tale Garden is an open-air themed trail with characters from the legends and folk tales of the…
Gardens
Międzygórze
On the slope above Międzygórze, at about 700 metres, wooden figures from fairy tales stand among junipers and yews: Hansel and Gretel, Puss in Boots, Polish cartoon goat Koziołek Matołek, the Moomins and the Little Mole. Pride of place goe…
Gardens
Zielona Góra
On ul. Botaniczna in Zielona Góra you can see more than a thousand plant species and feed the peacocks in a single walk. The University of Zielona Góra Botanical Garden was recreated in 2007 on part of a pre-war garden, and right next door…
Museums
Kraków
At the Garden of Experiences you learn physics not from a blackboard but on a swing, at a giant Newton's cradle or while pushing a heavy crate. Named after science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem, the park covers 6 hectares of the Polish Airm…
Gardens
Warszawa
Krasiński Garden (Ogród Krasińskich, pronounced "kra-SHEEN-skeekh") is a historic city park in Warsaw's Muranów district, created in 1676 as the Baroque garden of the Krasiński Palace and open to the public since the 1760s. Today it is a c…
Zoos
Toruń
The Toruń Zoological and Botanical Garden is a small, friendly zoo set inside a historic botanical garden on Bydgoska Street, about 1 km west of the Old Town. On less than 4 hectares you'll find around 50 animal species — European bison, m…
Zoos
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz Zoo sits in the middle of Myślęcinek Forest Park on the northern edge of Bydgoszcz (say "BID-gosh"), a city in north-central Poland. Founded as a "Garden of Polish Fauna", it still focuses on animals native to Poland, such as Eur…
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…
Museums
Wielka Nieszawka
The Olender Ethnographic Park in Wielka Nieszawka (say "VYEL-kah nyeh-SHAHV-kah") is Poland's first open-air museum devoted to the Olęder, or "Dutch," settlers who drained and farmed the marshy Vistula valley. Spread over more than 5 hecta…
Museums
Olsztyn
The Olsztyn Planetarium and Astronomical Observatory is one of the best family-friendly things to do in Olsztyn, the city where Nicolaus Copernicus once lived and worked. Opened in 1973, the planetarium's dome is a local landmark, but the…
Museums
Puck
On the edge of the Darżlubska Forest, in Sławutowo near Puck, a village of the early Slavs from the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries has been recreated. The settlement has eight wooden huts that show how people lived and worked a thousan…
Ski resorts
Białka Tatrzańska
The slope at Bania in Białka Tatrzańska has its own chapter in Polish skiing history: Poland's first slope with artificial snowmaking opened here in 1994. Today the resort runs under the name Bania Ski & Fun – a short four-seater chairlift…
Amusement parks
Lubnica
A beetle, a spider, a butterfly and a praying mantis the size of a car: in Lubnica, in the Okonek district, insects are shown magnified up to 200 times. Owadogigant is a family amusement park on the edge of the Drawa Landscape Park, where…
Palaces
Jarocin
The Radoliński Palace in Jarocin (pronounced "yah-ROH-tseen") is a castle-like Gothic Revival mansion with battlements and turrets, set in a historic park in the middle of a small town in western Poland. It was designed by Friedrich August…
Palaces
Jelenia Góra
When fire destroyed Chojnik Castle in 1675, the Schaffgotsch family needed a new seat – and found it at the foot of the same hill. Work on the palace in Sobieszów began in 1705; according to the European Route of Castles and Palaces, it wa…
Mountains & peaks
Szczawnica
Palenica (say "pah-leh-NEE-tsah") is a 722-meter (2,369 ft) hill in the Little Pieniny range right above Szczawnica, a historic spa town in southern Poland. A four-seat chairlift whisks you from the town center to the top in under five min…
Gardens
Poznań
In the Sołacz district, between Wielkopolska Avenue and the Bogdanka valley, lies a park best known for its avenue of silver maples. Adam Wodziczko Park covers more than 7 hectares and has over 2,000 trees of 54 species, and its patron was…
Amusement parks
Podzamcze
Turn a crank and watch the water in a spinning globe form a funnel, step onto a rotating platform, then strap into a rollover simulator to feel what happens to your body in an overturning car. The Physics Experience Park in Podzamcze is an…