Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Caves
Jerzmanowice
Nietoperzowa Cave (pronounced "nyeh-toh-peh-ZHOH-vah," Polish for "Bat Cave") in Jerzmanowice is one of the best-known show caves of the Polish Jura, the limestone upland just northwest of Kraków. A guided walk takes you through spacious,…
Technical monuments
Zakopane
The Kasprowy Wierch cable car is Poland's most famous mountain lift: in about 20 minutes it carries you from Kuźnice, on the edge of Zakopane, to 1,959 m (6,427 ft), just below the summit of Kasprowy Wierch in the Tatra Mountains. Running…
Technical monuments
Chorzów
The Elka Cable Car (Kolej Linowa "Elka") in Chorzów is a gondola-and-chairlift line gliding over Silesian Park, one of Europe's largest urban parks, in the heart of the Katowice metropolitan area. It links Silesian Stadium, the Legendia am…
Amusement parks
gmina Torzym
The wooden Wilkołak (Werewolf) roller coaster stands 22 m tall and reaches 71 km/h – a mirror-image copy of Heidi the Ride at Plopsaland De Panne in Belgium. Majaland Kownaty is a family theme park in western Poland's Lubuskie region, buil…
Museums
Rzeszów
The Bedtime Cartoon Museum in Rzeszów (Muzeum Dobranocek) is devoted to "dobranocki" – the evening cartoons that Polish children waited for before bed for decades. Its display cases on Mickiewicza Street hold original film puppets of Teddy…
Amusement parks
Inwałd
"Świat Marzeń" Miniature Park in Inwałd is a family park with models of 65 famous buildings from Poland and around the world, set between Andrychów and Wadowice. In a single day you can stand beneath the Eiffel Tower, St Peter's Basilica a…
Museums
Olsztynek
The Olsztynek Open-Air Museum (say "ol-SHTIN-ek"), officially the Museum of Folk Architecture – Ethnographic Park, is one of the oldest and largest skansens (open-air museums) in Poland. Spread over about 77 hectares in the Warmia-Masuria…
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 –…
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…
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…
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…
Landmarks
Sławków
In August 1697 King Augustus II the Strong feasted at the Sławków inn and — so the story goes — broke a silver cup with his bare hands in front of the guests. The wooden inn at Rynek 2 still stands and still feeds visitors: a restaurant ha…
Mountains & peaks
Soblówka
Poland's first PTTK "bacówka" – a small mountain hut – was supposed to be flown up to the meadow in one piece by helicopter from the village of Soblówka. That proved technically impossible, so the wooden hut was built on site on Hala Rycer…
Mountains & peaks
Jastrzębik
Bacówka nad Wierchomlą is a small PTTK mountain hut in the Sądecki Beskids, set in a broad clearing at 887 m above sea level on the trail between Runek and Pusta Wielka. From the clearing you can see the Radziejowa range and, on clear days…
Mountains & peaks
Koniaków
In the hamlet of Szańce in Koniaków, the Kohut family runs a Shepherding Centre: a wooden shepherd's hut, known locally as the "kolyba", a highlander shop and an educational farm with sheep and goats. The farm practises traditional grazing…
Nature
Brodnica
Above Brodnica the Drwęca river makes a wide bend, and every spring its flat, marshy valley floor floods. During migration up to 20,000 waterbirds stop here, including up to 7,000 greater white-fronted geese. The easiest way to look into t…