Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Museums
Toruń
The Toruń Planetarium (officially the Center for Space Popularization "Planetarium – Toruń") is one of the most visited things to do in Toruń, the city where Nicolaus Copernicus was born. It drew more than 290,000 visitors in 2022. Shows r…
Lakes
Czernichów
The lake beside Czernichów's beach was designed by the man who became Poland's first president. Gabriel Narutowicz, a hydraulic engineer, drew up the design for the dam on the Soła river together with Tadeusz Baecker, creating Lake Międzyb…
Technical monuments
Oleśnica
The Oleśnica incline (oh-leh-SHNEE-tsah) is one of five "ship railways" on the Elbląg Canal in northern Poland, where boats cross a hill on rail carriages and seem to sail across a meadow. The drop here is about 24 m, the largest of the fi…
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…
Museums
Kraków
The Rynek Underground (Podziemia Rynku, "pod-ZHEM-ya RIH-neh-koo") in Kraków is a museum hidden beneath the city's Main Market Square, one of the largest medieval squares in Europe. Below the cobbles around the Cloth Hall, archaeologists u…
Historic sites
Rzeszów
The Rzeszów Cellars Underground Route (Rzeszowskie Piwnice) is a maze of old merchants' cellars beneath the main square of Rzeszów (say "ZHEH-shoof"), linked into a 396-meter (1,300-foot) tourist route. You descend as deep as 10 meters, sq…
Nature
Gołuchów
In the woods next to the Gołuchów arboretum live European bison, Polish konik horses, fallow deer and wild boar – on more than 20 ha of fenced land, part of which is a meadow used as bison pasture. The Animal Display Enclosure has been her…
Monuments & mounds
Czerniejewo
By the old forest road known as the Leśniewo Track stands a white obelisk with a cross, and its base records the exact time of death: 12 noon, 30 December 1912. This is where Count Witold Skórzewski was killed in a hunting accident – a dip…
Zoos
Władysławowo
The Bird House (Ptaszarnia) in the port of Władysławowo is the opposite of a typical parrot house. In a large covered tent at Hryniewieckiego 1, among tropical greenery, live more than a hundred small exotic birds – they do not land on you…
Amusement parks
Rabka-Zdrój
Rabkoland started in 1988 as the "Alibaba" funfair on a muddy two-hectare plot in the centre of Rabka-Zdrój. Today it is a family amusement park beside the Poniczanka and Raba streams, rebuilt in 2019 and divided into six themed zones for…
Landmarks
Poznań
Poznań Town Hall (Ratusz, say "RAH-toosh") on the Old Market Square is one of the finest Renaissance town halls in Central Europe and the symbol of the city. Every day at noon two mechanical billy goats pop out above the clock and butt hea…
Museums
Poznań
The Croissant Museum in Poznań (Rogalowe Muzeum Poznania, roughly "ro-GAH-lo-veh moo-ZEH-oom") is a lively, hands-on show rather than a museum of display cases. Right on the Old Market Square, costumed hosts teach you how Poznań's famous S…
Mountains & peaks
Brenna
On the ridge of Grabowa, archaeologists have found traces of Middle Palaeolithic early humans, probably of the Mousterian culture. Today, right next to the summit of this mountain (907 m), stands Chata Grabowa — a lodge in highland style,…
Museums
Nowogród
The Kurpie Open-Air Museum in Nowogród (NO-vo-groot) is one of the two oldest open-air museums in Poland, founded in 1927. About 25 large wooden buildings and dozens of smaller structures stand on a high bank above the Narew River, and tog…
Museums
Pobiedziska
The Piast Trail Miniature Park in Pobiedziska (say "poh-byeh-JEE-skah") lets you walk past Greater Poland's greatest landmarks in under an hour. Its 37 outdoor models at 1:20 scale range from Gniezno Cathedral and Poznań's Old Market Squar…
Museums
Sierpc
The Sierpc open-air museum (say “SHYER-pts”), officially the Museum of the Mazovian Countryside, is one of the largest skansens in Poland. Across about 60 hectares of river meadows stand more than 80 historic buildings: thatched farmhouses…
Museums
Chęciny
The Tokarnia open-air museum (Tokarnia is pronounced roughly "toh-KAR-nyah"), officially the Ethnographic Park of the Museum of the Kielce Countryside, is one of the largest heritage villages in Poland. Spread over more than 65 hectares in…
Viewpoints
Świeradów-Zdrój
Above the spa rooftops of Świeradów-Zdrój rises Sky Walk — Poland's tallest observation tower, with a glass terrace suspended 62 metres above the ground. There are no stairs to climb: a gently winding, 850-metre wooden walkway takes you to…
Technical monuments
Ruciane-Nida
The Guzianka Lock (say "goo-ZHAN-ka") in Ruciane-Nida is a pair of chamber locks linking Lake Bełdany with the small Lake Guzianka Mała – the gateway from the main Great Masurian Lakes waterway to Ruciane-Nida and Lake Nidzkie in northeast…
Amusement parks
Zakopane
Every winter a snow maze is built from scratch at the foot of the Wielka Krokiew ski jump in Zakopane – the organisers stress that it is the only structure of its kind in Poland and call it the largest snow maze in the world. Producing the…
Amusement parks
Niedzica
At Spiska Kraina, Dunajec Castle, the Red Monastery and the wooden church in Dębno stand just a few steps apart – at a scale of 1:20. This family amusement park in Niedzica-Zamek began with a miniature park of monuments of Podhale, Spiš an…
Ski resorts
Bytom
In the middle of Upper Silesia, a few steps from a beech forest, skiers glide down a slope created on the site of a former dolomite mine. Sport Dolina (formerly Dolomity Sportowa Dolina) has operated since 1 December 2002 in Bytom's Sucha…
Museums
Złoty Stok
A medieval miner had no electricity to pump water out of the mine – he had his legs. At the Medieval Mining Village in Złoty Stok you can step inside a huge treadwheel and set it turning yourself, then lift a load dozens of times heavier t…
Technical monuments
Środa Wielkopolska
The Środa County Railway (Średzka Kolej Powiatowa; Środa is pronounced "SHROH-dah") is a heritage narrow-gauge line running about 9 miles between Środa Wielkopolska and Zaniemyśl, roughly 22 miles southeast of Poznań in western Poland. On…