This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

A haunting deserted hotel is a favorite with artists and photographers.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.

This fairytale inspired, warped building houses restaurants, shops, and a radio station.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.