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Museums
Koszuty
Koszuty Manor (Dwór w Koszutach; say "ko-SHOO-tih"), near Środa Wielkopolska in western Poland, is one of the finest surviving timber manor houses of the Polish gentry. Built of larch around 1760, with corner pavilions and a broken roof, i…
Palaces
Łopuszna
Łopuszna Manor House (Łopuszna is pronounced roughly "wo-POOSH-nah") is one of the finest surviving wooden manor houses of the Polish gentry, a whitewashed single-story home with a tall shingled mansard roof, set at the foot of the Gorce M…
Palaces
Modlnica
For twelve years the ethnographer Oskar Kolberg lived in the white Konopka family manor in Modlnica, just outside Kraków, working on further volumes of his monumental "Lud" ("The People"). Today the classicist residence, with its columned…
Palaces
Żytno
In the 19th century Henryk Sienkiewicz and Jacek Malczewski are said to have visited, after the war village children went to school here, and then for years the building fell into ruin. Żytno Manor House – a classicist residence from 1819…
Historic sites
Duszniki-Zdrój
The Chopin Manor in Duszniki-Zdrój (say "DOOSH-nee-kee ZDROO-y"), formerly the Spa Theater, is an elegant white pavilion in the spa park of a small resort town in southwestern Poland. In summer 1826 a 16-year-old Frédéric Chopin gave a cha…
Landmarks
Szczawnica
When the rebuilding of Dworek Gościnny in Szczawnica began in 2008, no plans of the building survived. The architects had an old postcard showing a man standing in front of the entrance – they assumed he was about 180 cm tall and used him…
Museums
Russów
Maria Dąbrowska, author of "Nights and Days", was born in this manor house near Kalisz in 1889 and spent her childhood and youth here until 1907. The house never belonged to her family – her father, Józef Szumski, managed the estate. Since…
Technical monuments
Gdańsk
A red-brick building with a 50-metre clock tower is the first thing most people see when they arrive in Gdańsk by train. Gdańsk Główny station, built in 1894–1900, is one of the city's best-known landmarks, and in front of its entrance sta…
Museums
Tarnowskie Góry
Since December 2025 the upper floor of the Neo-Renaissance railway station in Tarnowskie Góry – the former waiting room – has housed the Culture Station (Dworzec Kultury), a branch of the Tarnowskie Góry Museum. Its main attraction is the…
Technical monuments
Katowice
In front of Katowice station stand 16 reinforced-concrete "chalices" – columns that flare upwards like concrete flowers. They echo the famous Brutalist station of 1972, demolished in 2010–2011 despite protests from architects. Today's stat…
Amusement parks
Piaseczno
A DeLorean of "Back to the Future" fame, a "Harry Potter"-style car, a Chevrolet Camaro and Thomas the Tank Engine — in Zalesie Górne near Warsaw there is a collection of more than 50 cars from films and cartoons. Dzielnica Filmowa (Film D…
Churches & monasteries
Sandomierz
Every evening – so the local tradition handed down in Sandomierz goes – the cathedral bell remembers those who fell at the Battle of Varna and those who drowned in the Vistula. The tall stone bell tower beside the Cathedral Basilica was bu…
Churches & monasteries
Wiślica
To the left of the basilica entrance in Wiślica stands a square tower whose upper half is wrapped in a lattice of dark brick diamonds. It was funded by Jan Długosz – chronicler, canon and tutor to the royal princes – and under its roof he…
Museums
Łódź
EC1 Łódź – City of Culture is a former power station in Łódź (say "WOODGE") reborn as a cluster of museums: Poland's largest science and technology center, a state-of-the-art planetarium, a national exhibition on Polish cinema and a comics…
Zoos
Sosnowiec
The Egzotarium in Sosnowiec (pronounced roughly "sos-NO-vyets") is a combined zoo and botanical garden housed in a striking glass building in southern Poland. Officially the Ecological Education Center – Egzotarium, it brings together aqua…
Other
Żarki
EtnoJura is a series of craft workshops run by Etno Pracownia in Żarki on the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland – on the studio's website the workshop gallery is titled "Warsztaty EtnoJury". Participants work with hay, wicker, wood and leather and…
Amusement parks
Szydłów
The European Fairy Tale Centre in Pacanów (roughly "pa-TSAH-noof") is a children's culture center built around Koziołek Matołek, the little goat who stars in one of Poland's best-loved picture books. In the 1932 story by Kornel Makuszyński…
Museums
Łódź
Experymentarium is a Discovery Centre-style science centre in Łódź's Manufaktura complex, on the first floor of a building on the Manufaktura market square. There is one rule: you have to touch everything. The interactive exhibition has ab…
Museums
Bydgoszcz
Exploseum in Bydgoszcz is a museum set inside the ruins of DAG Fabrik Bromberg, a vast Nazi German explosives factory hidden in a pine forest on the edge of the city. You walk through concrete halls where nitroglycerin was produced during…
Museums
Moszna
On ul. Zamkowa in Moszna, not far from the fairy-tale castle, stand steel giants welded together from car scrap — the largest are 3.5 metres tall and weigh up to 900 kilograms. The Robot Factory (Fabryka Robotów) is a private museum of scr…
Museums
Kraków
Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory in Kraków is the building where the German industrialist made famous by Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List employed and ultimately protected more than 1,100 Jews during World War II. Today it houses a bran…
Zoos
Wicko
The maize here grows almost 3 metres tall, and the paths of the maze, laid out over more than 4 hectares of field, change every year. Farma Alexa in Charbrowo near Łeba calls itself Poland's first agricultural education and amusement park:…
Amusement parks
Mościska
Farma Iluzji ("Illusion Farm"; say "FAR-mah ee-LOO-zee") in the village of Mościska is a family amusement park in the forest of eastern Mazovia, roughly halfway between Warsaw and Lublin. Its 6 hectares hold more than 70 attractions: optic…
Other
Lanckorona
Once a year, in December, Lanckorona turns into a town of angels. The winter festival Anioł w Miasteczku (Angel in the Town) is three days of events in many places at once: an Angel Christmas Market runs on the market square, while concert…