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This unique railroad museum secretly contains the history of Poland rebuilding itself from the inside-out.

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

This ex-prison dates back to the Middle Ages.

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

An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."

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

A 19th-century pharmacy converted into a bookstore.

This museum in the tower of the oldest church in Gdańsk, is home to centuries-old time-keeping devices and the world's first pulsar clock.

This cemetery of rusting Soviet-era steam locomotives and train cars offers an apocalyptic glimpse into a bygone era.

The final resting place of the last "gypsy king" of Poland.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.

A somber memorial honors the hundreds of thousands of lives lost at this labor and extermination camp.

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

This open-air museum was originally a World War II testing ground for German missiles and rockets.

Atop this library is one of the most beautiful green spaces in Warsaw.

Dubbed "Wistom" by locals, this abandoned factory is an urban explorer's dream.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

One of the largest amphitheaters in Europe is a former Nazi German gathering place that still stands today.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.