Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Landmarks
Lublin
The Lublin Underground Route (Lubelska Trasa Podziemna) is a nearly 300-meter (1,000-foot) tourist trail through old merchants' cellars beneath the Market Square and townhouses of Lublin's Old Town. You descend up to 9–12 m (30–40 ft) belo…
Amusement parks
Borówiec
In the wooded village of Borówiec near Kórnik, inside a hall at ul. Uroczysko 1, a dozen trains run at the same time across more than 450 m² of H0-scale (1:87) layout. The operator bills it as the largest model railway in Poland, and it is…
Amusement parks
Rzgów
Mandoria – City of Adventures is an amusement park in Rzgów, about 20 km south of Łódź, on national road no. 1. Most of its rides are indoors, themed as a 16th-century Renaissance merchant town, so the park works whatever the weather. Next…
Technical monuments
Łódź
Manufaktura in Łódź (say "WOODGE") is a vast 19th-century textile factory turned into the city's liveliest destination. Across 27 hectares (67 acres) of red-brick mills built by cotton magnate Izrael Poznański, you'll now find museums, a m…
Churches & monasteries
Legnica
In an octagonal chapel beside St John's Church in Legnica, four alabaster figures hold a conversation that never ends. They are the last of the Piasts, the dynasty that founded Poland: fifteen-year-old Duke George William, his parents and…
Museums
Karpacz
Henryk Tomaszewski, founder of the Wrocław Pantomime Theatre, brought toys home from every tour – dolls, teddy bears, figurines. That travelling collection became the Municipal Toy Museum in Karpacz, housed since 2012 in the restored forme…
Museums
Wiślica
For half a century a shallow gypsum hollow 4.2 metres across was treated as proof that Christianity reached Wiślica almost a hundred years before the baptism of Poland's first ruler, Mieszko I, in 966. Today it is known as one of the most…
Museums
Toruń
Młyn Wiedzy (say "mwin VYED-zih," meaning "Mill of Knowledge") is Toruń's hands-on science center, set inside the restored red-brick Richter Mills on ul. Łokietka. Instead of glass cases, you get exhibits to spin, push and experiment with,…
Technical monuments
Bydgoszcz
The Rother Mills (Młyny Rothera, roughly "MWIN-ih ROH-teh-rah") in Bydgoszcz are a restored 19th-century industrial mill complex on Mill Island, right in the city center. Today the brick and half-timbered buildings house a science and cult…
Museums
Kraków
MOCAK, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (say "MO-tsak"), is the city's leading venue for art of recent decades. It stands in Zabłocie, a former industrial area across the Vistula, on the grounds of Oskar Schindler's wartime enamel…
Zoos
Dębki
A tropical greenhouse a few steps from the beach, filled with hundreds of exotic butterflies that fly freely and land on visitors' hands, clothes and bags. The seasonal butterfly house at ul. Spacerowa 3a in Dębki opens only in the summer…
Zoos
Władysławowo
In the port of Władysławowo, on ul. Hryniewieckiego, a tropical microclimate reigns in summer, and hundreds of butterflies from all over the world fly freely among exotic plants. There are no display cases or terrariums – the insects settl…
Museums
Trzęsacz
Fifty metres from the most famous ruin on the Polish coast, on Klifowa Street in Trzęsacz, stands the Władysław Jagiełło Multimedia Museum of Trzęsacz, also known as MuzeON. Instead of display cases it has four rooms of images, light and s…
Museums
Włodawa
The Synagogue Complex Museum in Włodawa (say vwo-DAH-vah) is a unique group of three former Jewish community buildings in eastern Poland. Its centerpiece is the 18th-century Great Synagogue, where a neo-Baroque Torah ark with polychrome de…
Museums
Częstochowa
Among silver votive offerings, robes for the Miraculous Icon and 17th-century portraits of monks lies an object straight from a church-fair stall: a big red ballpoint pen with a postcard of Pope John Paul II inside. On 31 August 1980 Lech…
Museums
Olkusz
In the centre of Olkusz, in an outbuilding of the former hospital at 32 Szpitalna Street, sits a remarkable collection of art and everyday objects from West and Central Africa. The African Museum was founded in 1971 on a gift from a local…
Museums
Rudno
Right below the ruins of Tenczyn Castle, on the volcanic hill of Spalisko (about 400 m above sea level), collector Witold Koprucha opened the private Agate Museum in 2020. The key specimens all come from the immediate area: fields and debr…
Museums
Poznań
The Archaeological Museum in Poznań is housed in the Renaissance Górka Palace (Pałac Górków, say "PAH-wats GOOR-koof") at Wodna 27, a block south of the Old Market Square. Founded in 1857, it is one of Poland's oldest archaeological museum…
Museums
Elbląg
The Archaeological and Historical Museum in Elbląg (say "EL-blonk") is the city's main museum and one of the most rewarding archaeology museums in northern Poland. Housed in two historic buildings on the riverside grounds of the former Teu…
Museums
Kraków
The Archdiocesan Museum in Kraków, named after Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, occupies two historic townhouses on Kanonicza Street, right below Wawel Castle. It combines a fine collection of sacred art from churches across the Archdiocese of Krak…
Museums
Gniezno
The Archdiocesan Museum in Gniezno (Muzeum Archidiecezji Gnieźnieńskiej) holds the treasury of Gniezno Cathedral, one of the oldest and richest church collections in Poland. In a building just behind the cathedral on Lech Hill you can see…
Museums
Wrocław
The Museum of Architecture in Wrocław is the only museum of its kind in Poland, housed in the late-Gothic buildings of a former Bernardine (Franciscan) monastery a few minutes from the Market Square. The setting alone is worth the visit: a…
Museums
Kraków
Under the glass roof of a former Kraków Fortress building hangs the fuselage of a British Halifax bomber, with a V-2 rocket standing nearby. The General Emil Fieldorf "Nil" Home Army Museum tells the story of the Polish Underground State a…
Museums
Poznań
In a long brick corridor of a former Prussian fortress, hidden among the trees of Poznań's Citadel Park, the story of one army and one battle is told. The Poznań Army Museum follows the soldiers of General Tadeusz Kutrzeba from mobilisatio…