Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Churches & monasteries
Chełmno
On the very edge of the escarpment above the Vistula valley stands a convent that has belonged in turn to Cistercian nuns, Benedictine nuns and the Sisters of Charity since the 13th century. Its brick gables and tower shape the skyline of…
Technical monuments
Żnin
The Żnin Narrow-Gauge Railway (Żnin is pronounced roughly "zhneen") is a heritage tourist line in central Poland that runs 12 km from the town of Żnin through Wenecja and Biskupin to Gąsawa. Its tiny 600 mm gauge trains link the three best…
Museums
Toruń
The Living Museum of Gingerbread (Żywe Muzeum Piernika, roughly "ZHIH-veh moo-ZEH-oom pyer-NEE-kah") in Toruń is a private, hands-on museum where you don't look at display cases, you make gingerbread yourself. In a 19th-century brick grana…