Places Pengwn Wants to Go

An unusual cave filled with rare alien-looking aragonite formations.

Too much gossip or just missing curfew could land you in here for a couple of days.

Gliwice Radio Tower, likely the tallest wooden structure in the world.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

An underground city of salt.

Poland's oldest salt mine has nearly everything one needs to live underground forever.

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

A small granite monument marks where the borders of three countries meet.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

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

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

Brought to you by the makers of fiberglass dinosaurs.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

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

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

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.