Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Amusement parks
Katowice
Bajka Pana Kleksa (Mr Blot's Fairy Tale) is a family centre for play and learning in the former Porcelain Factory in Katowice: more than 1,400 m² of puzzles, experiments and sets inspired by Jan Brzechwa's novels about Professor Klex. It i…
Amusement parks
Bałtów
The Bałtów Tourist Complex began in 2004 with a dinosaur trail, and according to its owner it now covers around 100 hectares in the Kamienna valley. There is a safari park toured in American school buses, a European bison enclosure, a mini…
Zoos
Bałtów
Every European bison born in Bałtów gets a name starting with "Po-": Polesław, Pojata, Pompon, Poezja. It is a Polish naming tradition for the species, and the herd is the pride of the Bałtów Animal Park (Zwierzyniec Bałtowski) – a safari…
Amusement parks
Międzyzdroje
The Baltic Miniature Park at ul. Nowomyśliwska 98 in Międzyzdroje takes you around the Baltic Sea in 45 minutes. Models of monuments and lighthouses from nine countries are built at a scale of 1:25 and placed according to their real locati…
Mountains & peaks
Istebna
Signs give the height as 1220 m, but that figure refers to a survey point set almost 5 m above the ground on a concrete obelisk – the summit itself is about 1215 m. Barania Góra is the second-highest peak of the Silesian Beskids (after Skr…
Nature
Toruń
Barbarka is a forest recreation area on the northwestern edge of Toruń and one of the most important World War II memorial sites in northern Poland. About 7 km from the Old Town, the woods hold a half-timbered chapel of St. Barbara, a fore…
Thermal baths & water parks
solec-zdroj
Baseny Mineralne (Mineral Pools) in Solec-Zdrój (say "SOH-lets ZDROOY") is a year-round pool, sauna and health complex in a small spa village in southern Poland, famous for some of the strongest sulfur waters in the country. Its star attra…
Museums
Biskupin
The Archaeological Museum in Biskupin (say "bis-KOO-peen") is Poland's most famous archaeological open-air museum: a life-size reconstruction of a fortified lakeside settlement built around 2,700 years ago, alongside an early medieval vill…
Fortifications
Ustka
The Blücher Bunkers in Ustka are a surviving German coastal and anti-aircraft battery from the late 1930s, hidden among pine trees on a dune just west of the harbor in this Polish Baltic resort. Today the underground shelters house a moder…
Amusement parks
Człuchów
Canpol Wonderland near Człuchów (say: CHWOO-hoof) is a family amusement park in the village of Sieroczyn in Poland's Pomerania region, part of a roadside complex that also includes a free zoo, a go-kart track, a restaurant and a hotel. Kid…
Museums
Kalisz
The Dorotka Tower is the only surviving tower of Kalisz's medieval walls – out of eighteen that once reinforced them. Since 8 December 2018 it has housed the Centre of Kalisz Fairy Tales, Legends and the Town's Founding: a multimedia exhib…
Museums
Podlesice
The Jura Natural and Cultural Heritage Center in Podlesice (pronounced roughly "pod-leh-SHEE-tseh") is a small visitor center at the foot of Góra Zborów, one of the most striking limestone hills of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland – the "Poli…
Nature
Psary
The Ecological Education Centre in Góra Siewierska is a fenced park in Psary municipality (Będzin County), opened in April 2022. Its 1.7 ha hold a 15-metre viewing tower, a trail of boards on climate protection, several themed gardens and…
Museums
Gdynia
The Experyment Science Center in Gdynia (pronounced roughly "ex-PEH-ri-ment") is a hands-on science museum in the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park in the Redłowo district – a place where you don't just look at exhibits but touch, tes…
Museums
Poznań
The Enigma Cipher Center (Centrum Szyfrów Enigma) in Poznań is an interactive exhibition about one of the great intelligence stories of World War II: how three young Polish mathematicians, Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki…
Museums
Brenna
Chlebowa Chata (the Bread Cottage) in Górki Małe is an open-air museum, museum and educational farm in one, set at the foot of the Silesian Beskids in the Brennica valley. Since 2005 the hosts have been showing what village life looked lik…
Thermal baths & water parks
Chochołów
Chochołowskie Termy (roughly "ho-ho-WOV-skyeh TER-mi") in the village of Chochołów is the largest thermal pool complex in Poland's Podhale region, the highland area at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. It offers about 4,500 m² (48,000 sq ft…
Technical monuments
Jędrzejów
The Świętokrzyska Narrow-Gauge Railway, better known as the "Ciuchcia Express Ponidzie", is a heritage line running from Jędrzejów towards the Nida river. The tourist train rolls through the meadows, fields and woods of Ponidzie, and the f…
Other
Białowieża
The Białowieski Express looks like a little train, but it runs on tarmac: a road-going locomotive pulling a covered carriage that takes up to 30 people on a tour of Białowieża village and the edge of the primeval forest. The highlight is t…
Amusement parks
Szklarska Poręba
Dinopark in Szklarska Poręba (pronounced roughly "SHKLAR-skah po-REM-bah") is a forest theme park in Poland's Karkonosze (Giant) Mountains, where a woodland trail leads past life-size dinosaur models set among spruce trees and boulders. Al…
Other
Ruda Sułowska
The Carp Days in the Barycz Valley (Dni Karpia w Dolinie Baryczy, say: DNEE KAR-pya) are an autumn food and nature festival in western Poland, built around one of Europe's largest complexes of fish ponds. Rather than a single event, it is…
Nature
Aleksandrowice
The Aleksandrowice Valley is a roughly 3-km Jurassic valley in Aleksandrowice (Zabierzów municipality), just beyond Kraków's western boundary. It lies on the Tenczyn Ridge within Tenczyn Landscape Park. For a short walk you get a pond with…
Nature
Jerzmanowice
Będkowska Valley is 7–8 km long and one of the longest valleys of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The Będkówka stream runs along its floor beneath limestone crags, and in the middle rises Sokolica – the highest rock of the Jura, with a face…
Nature
Wisła
Around 25 waterfalls and rock steps, the tallest of them 5 metres high – these are the Rodło Cascades, the highest waterfalls in the Silesian Beskids, tucked away in the valley of the Biała Wisełka stream in Wisła Czarne. The stream is one…