Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Amusement parks
Łeba
Funlandia is an inflatable amusement park in Łeba at ul. Tysiąclecia 10 – almost 700 m² of bouncing, sliding and obstacle courses. Much of the fun takes place under cover, so the park comes in handy on family holidays by the Baltic when th…
Amusement parks
Polanica-Zdrój
Pirates, a jungle and a zip line on 7,500 m² — FunPark in Polanica-Zdrój is an outdoor playground with 14 attractions, where parents can relax over coffee on the terrace. The park was created near the centre of the spa town, on Kłodzka Str…
Museums
Gliwice
Funzeum – Children's Imagination Centre fills 4,000 m² in the Europa Centralna shopping centre in Gliwice. Despite the name, nobody looks at anything through glass here – the motto translates as "You don't tour it. You do it." Children bui…
Museums
Międzyzdroje
The Wax Figures Museum in Międzyzdroje (pronounced roughly "myen-dzi-ZDROY-eh") is a popular indoor attraction in one of Poland's best-known Baltic Sea resorts, on the island of Wolin near the German border. Set on the promenade a few step…
Zoos
Gdańsk
Gdańsk Zoo in Oliwa (Gdański Ogród Zoologiczny, roughly "guh-DAHN-skee OH-groot zoh-oh-loh-GEECH-nee") is the largest zoo in Poland by area, set in the forested Leśny Młyn valley inside the Tricity Landscape Park on the edge of Gdańsk. You…
Other
Jaworzno
In the walls of the former Sadowa Góra quarry in Jaworzno, quarrying exposed the bones of a nothosaur – a marine reptile from around 230 million years ago. On the quarry floor, a rippled stretch of Triassic seabed has survived, probably sh…
Amusement parks
Piechowice
A three-metre ant, a five-metre caterpillar and a butterfly that died out in the Sudetes in the 19th century — at GIGANTEI in Piechowice, insects have grown to giant size. This family theme park combines the legend of the Mountain Spirit w…
Technical monuments
Gniezno
The Gniezno Narrow-Gauge Railway is one of the oldest small railways in Greater Poland – its history began in 1884. The former network linked Gniezno with Witkowo, Powidz and Anastazewo; today trains run seasonally only on a short section…
Mountains & peaks
Kamieńsk
The highest hill in central Poland was not shaped by the Ice Age but by the communist-era economy: it was piled up by the spreaders of the Bełchatów lignite mine. Góra Kamieńska rises to 405.6 m above sea level and about 195 m above its su…
Viewpoints
Krynica-Zdrój
Góra Parkowa (742 m) rises right above the promenade of Krynica-Zdrój, and since 1937 Poland's first funicular railway has run to its summit. Remarkably, it still uses the same original interwar cars. At the top you will find the spa park,…
Technical monuments
Bytom
The Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge Railway, known locally as the "rosbanka", is a historic line with a track gauge of 785 mm that now carries tourists on a 21 km route from Bytom via Tarnowskie Góry to Miasteczko Śląskie. The network was buil…
Historic sites
Pobiedziska
Gród Pobiedziska (roughly "groot poh-byeh-JEE-skah"; "gród" means a fortified settlement) is a reconstructed early medieval stronghold and family history park in western Poland, halfway between Poznań and Gniezno. Behind its timber palisad…
Historic sites
Sopot
The Grodzisko in Sopot (say "gro-JEES-ko", meaning "hillfort") is the oldest historic site in this Baltic spa town – the remains of an early medieval Slavic stronghold on a wooded hill about 400 m from the sea. Today it is an open-air arch…
Museums
Gdańsk
Hevelianum (pronounced "heh-veh-LYAH-noom") is a hands-on science center in Gdańsk, set inside 19th-century fort buildings on Gradowa Hill (Góra Gradowa), just a short walk from the main train station. With interactive exhibitions on energ…
Nature
gmina Kroczyce
In 1942 the face of a German quarry cut the cave in two – its middle section was exposed and destroyed, and its two entrances became four. Even so, Głęboka Cave ("Deep Cave") in Góra Zborów near Podlesice is today the only cave in the nort…
Caves
Ojców
King Łokietek's Cave (Jaskinia Łokietka, roughly "yahs-KEEN-yah wo-KYET-kah") is the largest known cave in Ojców National Park, a small and beautiful protected area of limestone valleys about 25 km north of Kraków. A guided walk leads thro…