Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Museums
Sopot
The State Art Gallery in Sopot (Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, PGS) is one of the leading contemporary art venues in northern Poland, housed in the Spa House on Spa Square – just steps from the entrance to the famous Sopot pier. Its roughly 1,2…
Historic sites
Kraków
The National Pantheon in Kraków occupies the brick crypts of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul at 52a Grodzka Street, halfway between the Main Square and Wawel Hill. Since 2012 it has been the resting place of outstanding figures of Poli…
Museums
Konin
The Mikroskala Model Park in Konin is a hall full of miniature worlds: from Columbus's caravels and the sinking Titanic to the Moon landing, dinosaurs and Star Wars. Open since May 2013, it displays more than 50 models, some of which visit…
Museums
Ozimek
The visit begins in a "space dock hangar": a shuttle takes 50 passengers at a time, launches every 15 minutes and carries them 66 million years back, to the moment when life on Earth was almost wiped out. The Science and Human Evolution Pa…
Thermal baths & water parks
Hajnówka
After a day in the Białowieża Forest, especially in winter, warm water comes in handy. Hajnówka Water Park, opened in December 2009, is a municipal complex with a 25-metre sports pool, a leisure pool with a lazy river and wave machine, two…
Thermal baths & water parks
Kraków
The Kraków Water Park (Park Wodny, say "PARK VOD-nee") is the city's big indoor aquapark, open since 2000 in the Mistrzejowice district, about 2.5 km north of the Main Market Square. Under a striking timber roof you'll find pools, a lazy r…
Technical monuments
Gniezno
The Gniezno Roundhouse (Parowozownia Gniezno) is a historic steam locomotive depot next to the main railroad station in Gniezno, western Poland, and one of the largest surviving depot complexes in Europe. Two vast fan-shaped engine sheds,…
Museums
Wrocław
The Four Domes Pavilion in Wrocław is a modernist exhibition hall by German architect Hans Poelzig that now houses the Museum of Contemporary Art, a branch of the National Museum in Wrocław. Standing next to the UNESCO-listed Centennial Ha…
Other
Krynica-Zdrój
The Main Pump Room in Krynica-Zdrój (KRIH-nee-tsah ZDROOY) is a glass-walled modernist pavilion on the spa town's promenade where visitors have been drinking mineral water straight from the taps since 1971. It is the social heart of one of…
Other
Ustroń
Ustroń is the only town in the Silesian Beskids with official spa status, yet for a long time it had no pump room of its own. Today a glazed pavilion stands in the Spa Park in Zawodzie, on ul. Sanatoryjna, its shape echoing Ustroń's famous…
Museums
Lublin
On the vaulted ceiling of a cellar beneath the red house at Rynek 8 in Lublin stands a naked Fortune on a globe, holding a cloth whipped by the wind. Around her play out scenes about marriage, folly and love, copied from a fashionable Germ…
Museums
Toruń
The Toruń Planetarium (officially the Center for Space Popularization "Planetarium – Toruń") is one of the most visited things to do in Toruń, the city where Nicolaus Copernicus was born. It drew more than 290,000 visitors in 2022. Shows r…
Churches & monasteries
Żagań
In the monastery library in Żagań, two people standing in opposite corners of the room can talk in a whisper while anyone in the middle hears nothing. This is the work of a so-called whispering vault, one of the curiosities of the former A…
Caves
Chełm
The Chełm Chalk Tunnels (say HWEM, with a soft h) are a maze of passages cut into chalk beneath the Old Town of Chełm in eastern Poland, billed as unique in Europe. Locals mined chalk here for centuries, and part of the old workings is now…
Caves
Opatów
Beneath Opatów's market square runs a labyrinth that merchants dug into the soft loess over the centuries to store wine, herring, hides, spices, wax and salt. Today it is the Prof. Zbigniew Strzelecki Underground Tourist Route: about 500 m…
Museums
Kraków
The Rynek Underground (Podziemia Rynku, "pod-ZHEM-ya RIH-neh-koo") in Kraków is a museum hidden beneath the city's Main Market Square, one of the largest medieval squares in Europe. Below the cobbles around the Cloth Hall, archaeologists u…
Fortifications
Wałbrzych
Half a kilometre of concrete corridors and halls cut 50 metres beneath Poland's third-largest castle – and nobody knows to this day how big the whole complex really is. The Książ Castle Underground is an unfinished Nazi German project from…
Historic sites
Rzeszów
The Rzeszów Cellars Underground Route (Rzeszowskie Piwnice) is a maze of old merchants' cellars beneath the main square of Rzeszów (say "ZHEH-shoof"), linked into a 396-meter (1,300-foot) tourist route. You descend as deep as 10 meters, sq…
Historic sites
Kłodzko
The Kłodzko Underground Tourist Route (say "KWOTS-ko") is a roughly 600 m (2,000 ft) walk through medieval cellars and tunnels beneath the old town of Kłodzko in southwestern Poland, about 90 km (55 miles) south of Wrocław. Townspeople dug…
Landmarks
Sandomierz
The Underground Tourist Route in Sandomierz (say "san-DOH-myesh") is a 470-meter (1,540-foot) walk through medieval and Renaissance merchants' cellars hidden beneath the town's Market Square, reaching 12 meters (40 feet) below the cobbles.…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
The Underground City on Wolin Island (Podziemne Miasto, roughly "pod-ZHEM-neh MYAS-toh") in Świnoujście is a bunker complex where World War II and the Cold War meet. Hidden under the dunes of the Przytór district, a German coastal artiller…
Fortifications
Sierpnica
To this day nobody knows for certain what the concrete halls and tunnels cut into Osówka mountain from 1943 were meant for. Some say a secret headquarters for Hitler was being built here, others that it was underground armaments factories.…
Museums
Szczecin
Szczecin's Underground Routes take you into a World War II air-raid shelter hidden beneath the city's main railway station, Szczecin Główny. It is one of the largest civilian shelters in Poland, and in about an hour you can follow three se…
Museums
Olkusz
A few metres below the paving of Olkusz Market Square lie the cellars of a town hall that has not stood above ground for two hundred years. Underground Olkusz (Podziemny Olkusz) is a pair of underground exhibitions – one beneath the remain…