Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Amusement parks
Żory
A sheriff's office with a cell for outlaws, a post office with a telegraph, gunfights on the main street and Luisa the cow, on whom children can practise milking — the Twinpigs American Amusement Park in Żory was built as a town straight o…
Amusement parks
Inwałd
On a rocky rise in Inwałd, behind a palisade of wooden logs, stands a "medieval" stronghold of about 2,500 m² – complete with towers, an armoury and a torture chamber. It is not a historic monument but a theme park opened in July 2012, now…
Museums
Żarki
The "Time Machine on the Jurassic Trail" in Żarki is a living history museum run by historical re-enactors, where almost nothing sits behind glass. Visitors try on armour and medieval clothing, write with a quill like a scribe, handle weap…
Landmarks
Szczawnica
The Nad Zdrojami Villa, also known as the House over the Springs, stands on the eastern side of Dietl Square in the heart of spa-town Szczawnica. Since the 19th century, spa guests have been served the local carbonated waters here, right a…
Monuments & mounds
Wrocław
Wrocław is home to about 1,040 bronze dwarfs: by cash machines, on window sills, under street lamps and at office doors. The thousandth figure was unveiled in September 2025 – and this whole little population has a surprisingly serious ori…
Gardens
Opole
As late as the 1930s, Bolko Island could only be reached by boat. Today bridges lead onto it, and the island, surrounded by the Oder and the Flood Relief Canal, is Opole's green lung: a town park with ponds, old oaks and a zoo. Locals come…
Technical monuments
Rybnik
In the Głowacki shaft engine house stands a steam winding engine that ran without a break for 108 years, until 2008. Its younger sibling at the Kościuszko shaft still works and starts up for visitors every Sunday, while former mine engine…
Technical monuments
Rudy
Rudy lies almost exactly halfway along the former 51 km narrow-gauge line from Gliwice to Racibórz – which is why the largest station on the whole line was built here, with workshops, an engine shed and a track triangle for turning steam l…
Amusement parks
Wisła
In Wisła, the town near the source of Poland's longest river, you can walk the river's entire course in a few minutes. Zabytkowy Park Przygód, roughly "Heritage Adventure Park", in Kopczyński Park is a set of 10 miniatures of the best-know…
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…
Zoos
Pszczyna
The European Bison Show Farm in Pszczyna (PSHCHI-nah) lets you get close to Europe's heaviest land mammal in the leafy historic park of a small Silesian town. Its animals belong to the famous Pszczyna line of lowland bison, which helped sa…
Lakes
Byczyna
The Biskupice-Brzózki reservoir was not built for sunbathers but to save the groundwater — west of Byczyna its level had dropped markedly. Built in 1995–1996 on the Pratwa river, the reservoir covers 42 ha, and on an island surrounded by a…
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…
Museums
Podzamcze
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland has its share of spooky tales – of a black dog, of a white lady and of a water demon. In Podzamcze, right next to the ruins of Ogrodzieniec Castle, they have been gathered under one roof. The Castle of Legends…
Castles
Gołuchów
Gołuchów Castle (say: go-WOO-hoof) is a fairy-tale château in western Poland that has housed a branch of the National Museum in Poznań since 1951. Rebuilt in the 19th century by Princess Izabela Działyńska, née Czartoryska, in the spirit o…
Castles
Muszyna
Muszyna Castle (MOO-shih-nah) is a partly rebuilt medieval stronghold on Baszta hill (527 m) above the Poprad River valley and the small spa town of Muszyna in southern Poland. After a reconstruction completed in 2023, the former ruin has…
Technical monuments
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
The Góra Żar reservoir (pronounced roughly "GOO-rah ZHAR") is an artificial lake on top of a mountain in southern Poland's Little Beskids, above the village of Międzybrodzie Bialskie. It is the upper reservoir of the Porąbka-Żar pumped-sto…
Technical monuments
Żnin
The Żnin Narrow-Gauge Railway (Żnin is pronounced roughly "zhneen") is a heritage tourist line in central Poland that runs 12 km from the town of Żnin through Wenecja and Biskupin to Gąsawa. Its tiny 600 mm gauge trains link the three best…
Zoos
Łódź
Sharks and rays glide over a 26-metre underwater tunnel, and a few steps away lies Kraken, a false gharial that the zoo describes as the largest of his species in Europe. Łódź Zoo was founded in 1938, and in 2022 it opened the Orientarium,…
Zoos
Borysew
White Bengal tigers that swim in their own pool, and white lions – these are what made Zoo Safari Borysew famous, a family-run zoo near Poddębice in central Poland's Łódź region. It started in 2008 with 15 hectares and 30 species; today it…
Zoos
Nowy Tomyśl
Nowy Tomyśl Zoo (NO-vih TOH-mishl) is a small, leafy zoo in the town park of Nowy Tomyśl, a market town in western Poland between Poznań and the German border. Open since 1974, it keeps around 200 animals of 48 species, from camels and zeb…
Zoos
Wrocław
Wrocław Zoo (Zoo Wrocław; the city is pronounced VROTS-wahf) is the oldest zoo within Poland's present borders, open since 1865, and one of the most visited zoos in Europe. Around 12,000 animals of more than 1,100 species live on about 32…
Nature
Pszczyna
Two bison from the forests of Pszczyna, the cow Planta and the bull Plebejer, were among the twelve animals from which the whole species was rebuilt after the First World War. The best place to learn their story is Jankowice near Pszczyna,…
Technical monuments
Nowy Dwór Gdański
The Żuławy Narrow-Gauge Railway (Żuławska Kolej Dojazdowa, roughly "zhoo-WAHV-skah KO-leh doh-yah-ZDO-vah") is a heritage railway in northern Poland that runs through the flat Vistula Delta from Nowy Dwór Gdański to Sztutowo and Mikoszewo.…