Churches in Poland

A striking church with a Tolkien-inspired nickname.

This bombed church was given a new life as a contemporary art gallery.

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.

One of the world's largest amber altarpieces is housed within this reconstructed medieval church.

A massive mammoth bone has been on display inside this church since the 18th century.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

The last king of Poland was interred in this church nearly 200 years after his death.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

Hundreds of notes give thanks to the patron saint of lost causes.

This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.

Legend says a giant, venomous spider once dwelled within this Polish church.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

The coffin-shaped church was once home to monks who slept in coffins.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

This symbol of Polish heritage survived the occupation during World War II, hidden in plain sight.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.