Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Zoos
Wrocław
The Afrykarium in Wrocław (say af-rih-KAR-yum, VROTS-wahv) is Poland's first oceanarium devoted entirely to Africa and the star attraction of Wrocław Zoo, one of the country's most visited sights. Inside a vast, partly underground building…
Other
Białystok
Right next to Kościuszko Market Square, a stretch of pavement in Białystok turns into a guide to the history of Polish blues. The slabs of Blues Alley (Aleja Bluesa) carry the names of people who played, recorded and championed the genre –…
Gardens
Rudy
Behind the chancel of the former Cistercian church in Rudy grows an oak that dates back to the last Jagiellonian kings, and right next to it stand young trees named after popes. The Papal Oaks Avenue is a small but unusual spot in the park…
Other
Władysławowo
The Avenue of Sports Stars in Władysławowo is a promenade almost directly in front of the gate of the Central Sports Centre in Cetniewo, where since 2000 bronze stars bearing the names of athletes, coaches and journalists have been set int…
Other
Busko-Zdrój
On the promenade of the Spa Park in Busko-Zdrój, between the main façade of the old Bathhouse (today the Marconi Sanatorium) and the fountain, a row of commemorative slabs is set into the paving. Each carries a bronze "Little Sun" bearing…
Other
Międzyzdroje
The Walk of Fame in Międzyzdroje (say "myen-dzih-ZDRO-yeh"), known in Polish as Aleja Gwiazd, is Poland's answer to Hollywood's famous sidewalk: more than 200 bronze handprints of Polish actors, musicians and directors set into the seaside…
Landmarks
Częstochowa
Holy Virgin Mary Avenue (Aleja Najświętszej Maryi Panny, known locally simply as "Aleje") is the grand central boulevard of Częstochowa (say "chen-stoh-HOH-vah"), Poland's great pilgrimage city. Some 44 m wide, with a tree-lined pedestrian…
Monuments & mounds
Sobótka
On large granite rocks at the foot of Mount Ślęża, porcelain plaques show the photos and achievements of Poland's finest cyclists. The Cycling Walk of Fame in Sobótka is — as the wroclaw.pl portal points out — the only such avenue in the c…
Zoos
Poczesna
Alpakarnia Poczesna in Nowa Wieś (Poczesna municipality), just outside Częstochowa, started out as an alpaca farm and has grown into a family park with a mini zoo and playground. According to the operator it is home to around 100 tame alpa…
Lower Silesian
Milicz
In the hamlet of Koruszka, about 2 km from Milicz, a small herd of alpacas lives on a historic farmstead with a brick house (Ceglany Dom) and a barn. The owners bought the place in 2011 and have been breeding alpacas since 2013, organising…
Historic sites
Góra Świętej Anny
Stone terraces cut into a former limestone quarry were meant to hold 7,000 seated and 20,000 standing spectators. The amphitheatre on Góra Świętej Anny was built by the Nazis in the 1930s as a stage for propaganda rallies, with a mausoleum…
Museums
Kraków
The Under the Eagle Pharmacy (Apteka pod Orłem, roughly "AP-teh-kah pod OR-wem") in Kraków is one of the most moving places to visit in Podgórze, the district south of the Vistula where the Nazis sealed off the city's Jewish ghetto in 1941…
Thermal baths & water parks
Łódź
Aquapark Fala (say "FAH-lah", Polish for "wave") is the big water park of Łódź (pronounced roughly "Woodge"), one of Poland's largest cities, and the park is one of the busiest in the country, with a record 1.55 million visits in 2025. It…
Thermal baths & water parks
Sopot
The water in Sopot's aquapark does not come from the mains. Since 10 September 2016 it has been drawn from the park's own 116.4 m deep well, tapping an Oligocene aquifer, and in the pools it is around 32°C. Aquapark Sopot in the Kamienny P…
Thermal baths & water parks
Wrocław
Aquapark Wrocław on Borowska Street is the city's largest water park and one of the busiest in Poland, welcoming about 2.5 million visitors in 2025. Under one roof you will find leisure pools with a wave pool and lazy river, a set of water…
Gardens
Racibórz
The Moravian Gate Arboretum in Racibórz (Arboretum Bramy Morawskiej; Racibórz is pronounced roughly "rah-CHEE-boosh") is a free botanical garden and forest on the eastern edge of this town in southern Poland. Its roughly 162 hectares of hi…
Gardens
Zielonka
The Forest Arboretum in Zielonka is a free-to-visit tree collection run by the Poznań University of Life Sciences, set deep inside the Puszcza Zielonka forest northeast of Poznań, Poland. About 1,100 species and varieties of trees and shru…
Gardens
Rogów
The SGGW Arboretum in Rogów (pronounced roughly ROH-goov) is one of Poland's richest tree gardens, set in forest about 40 km east of Łódź in central Poland. Run by the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), it mixes serious plant scien…
Gardens
Bolestraszyce
The Bolestraszyce Arboretum (say "boh-leh-strah-SHIH-tseh") is a botanical garden about 4 miles (7 km) northeast of Przemyśl in southeastern Poland, close to the Ukrainian border. Founded in 1975 on the grounds of an old manor where the pa…
Gardens
Kórnik
Around Kórnik Castle grows the oldest and richest arboretum in Poland: more than 3,500 species and varieties of trees and shrubs on over 50 hectares. In 2026 the garden celebrates its 200th anniversary. People come in spring for the magnol…
Gardens
Niemcza
In 2024 a beech tree from Wojsławice, known as the Heart of the Garden, won the European Tree of the Year contest. It is a fitting emblem for a place where more than 6,500 species and cultivars of trees and shrubs grow, plus several thousa…
Churches & monasteries
Gdańsk
Oliwa Cathedral in Gdańsk (Archikatedra Oliwska, pronounced roughly "oh-LEE-vah") is a former Cistercian abbey church, the longest church in Poland and home to a famous Rococo organ whose carved angels and stars actually move as it plays.…
Churches & monasteries
Częstochowa
The Archcathedral of the Holy Family in Częstochowa (say "chen-stoh-HOH-vah") is one of the largest churches in Poland: a neo-Gothic red-brick basilica with twin spires over 80 m (260 ft) tall, standing just a few minutes' walk from the ci…
Amusement parks
Łódź
Arena Laser Games in Łódź (say: WOODGE) is an indoor laser tag arena inside Manufaktura, the city's huge entertainment complex built in a restored 19th-century textile mill. Run by the Experymentarium science center, it swaps paintballs fo…