Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Waterfalls
Karpacz
Dziki Wodospad – the "Wild Waterfall" – looks like a work of nature, but it is in fact a stone debris dam on the Łomnica river, built between 1910 and 1915. Water pours over its crest in a broad curtain, and the name refers to the violent…
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
Giżycko
Five minutes' walk from Giżycko station is the town's largest yacht and passenger harbour. Ekomarina sits on the northern shore of Lake Niegocin, which covers more than 2,600 ha and is almost 40 metres deep, and has berths for 238 vessels.…
Nature
Kołobrzeg
The Eastern Ecopark (Ekopark Wschodni) in Kołobrzeg is a protected stretch of coastal peat bogs between the town's spa district and the suburb of Podczele, crossed by one of the prettiest cycle paths on the Polish Baltic coast. At its hear…
Technical monuments
Ełk
The Ełk Narrow Gauge Railway (Ełk is pronounced roughly "ewk") is a heritage line that takes visitors from the Masurian town of Ełk to Sypitki through forests, villages and lakeshores. It is the only active narrow gauge railway in Warmia-M…
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…
Other
Racibórz
The Upper Oder Festival is a three-day summer celebration of the Upper Oder Land – the western part of the Silesian Voivodeship – spread over dozens of places along the river and in nearby towns. In 2025 it drew 200,669 visitors, with a pr…
Monuments & mounds
Gdańsk
The Hewelion lion figures in Gdańsk are a free city trail of small bronze lions hidden around the Baltic port city, from the historic Main Town to the beach, the zoo and even the airport. Each lion wears a different costume – sailor, pilot…
Other
Szczecin
The Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin is the city's most famous modern building – a cluster of white, ice-like peaks that glows in changing colors after dark. Designed by the Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga, it won the 2015…
Museums
Cichowo
The coach house, stable, barn, henhouse, granary and storehouse from the set of Andrzej Wajda's "Pan Tadeusz" did not end up on a scrapheap after filming. Built by highland carpenters, they were moved from the set near Józefów outside Wars…
Landmarks
Pobiedziska
On the market square of Pobiedziska, halfway between Poznań and Gniezno, three legendary brothers rest on a large boulder in the middle of a round basin. The Lech, Czech and Rus Fountain is a small monument with bronze figures — one standi…
Landmarks
Gdańsk
The Neptune Fountain (Fontanna Neptuna) in Gdańsk is the city's best-known landmark: a bronze statue of the Roman sea god, trident raised, standing on Long Market (Długi Targ) in front of the Artus Court since the 1630s. It sums up the sto…
Landmarks
Siewierz
"From Siewierz came a cart, carrying painted maidens" – almost everyone in Poland knows this song from the repertoire of the Śląsk Song and Dance Ensemble. In Siewierz you can actually see the maidens: two bronze figures of dancing girls i…