Places cemousley Wants to Go

Krakow's own version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

A Soviet era flat that refused to conform to the dull gray standards.

Seven dragon statues—including one that breathes real fire—are scattered throughout the streets of Krakow.

A 19th-century pharmacy converted into a bookstore.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

A statue commemorating a Polish dog who took his role as man's best friend very seriously.

Learn the fine art of making a centuries-old treat at this hands-on food museum.

At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

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

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

A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.

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

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

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

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

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

A group of tiny bears has occupied various spots across Warsaw's Bemowo district.

Catch a scenic view of Warsaw's Old Town from the top of a centuries-old dumping ground.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

These plaques found across Warsaw commemorate the sites where executions or battles took place during the German occupation.

Once home to some 250,000 volumes and priceless art artifacts, this Polish estate was a target of bombing during World War II.

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

A bronze replica of an elm tree that honors the victims that perished in Pawaik Prison.