Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Museums
Kudowa-Zdrój
Behind the fence at 46b Zdrojowa Street, in a small house with a mansard roof, live more than 5,500 toys – from figurines two thousand years old to video game consoles. The Toy Museum in Kudowa-Zdrój opened in December 2002 as the first pr…
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…
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…
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…
Amusement parks
Kowary
The Lower Silesian Monuments Miniature Park in Kowary (ko-VAH-rih) is an open-air display of 1:25 scale models of the castles, palaces, churches and old towns of southwest Poland. In one stroll you can see Książ Castle, Vang Stave Church,…
Gardens
Lubin
A Tyrannosaurus among century-old oaks, white-tailed eagles and capercaillies in aviaries, and next to them a wild riverside forest that nobody touches with an axe. Wrocławski Park is the oldest and most valuable park in Lubin in Lower Sil…
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…
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
Złoty Stok
In the Ochre Adit (Sztolnia Ochrowa) the walls are the colour of rust, mustard and orange. This is natural ochre – a pigment formed from iron compounds, the same one used for centuries in paints and cosmetics. The passage is about 130 metr…
Technical monuments
Kowary
Sztolnie Kowary (SHTOL-nyeh ko-VAH-rih, "the Kowary Adits") is an underground tour through the former Liczyrzepa uranium mine in Kowary, a small town at the foot of Poland's Giant Mountains. On a one-hour guided walk you follow tunnels whe…
Technical monuments
Nowa Ruda
Coal was mined in Nowa Ruda earlier than anywhere else in what is now Poland – the first records date from 1434. The last miners came to the surface in 1995, but the surviving Lech adit – the last part of the mine – has been open to touris…
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…
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…