Places Populaatti Wants to Go

The largest toy museum in Poland showcases Europe's history of childhood.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

This public park collects signposts and other memorabilia related to local history, Polish-German relations and human progress

A tribute to the first human in space.

A cluster of headless, armless sculptures looms within a popular Polish park.

One of only two places in the world where two rivers cross each other without the waters mixing.

An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.

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

Brought to you by the makers of fiberglass dinosaurs.

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

An underground city of salt.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

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

One man's journey to return a stone to its point of origin after 200,000 years.

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

A beautiful old horse stable hosts one of the largest collections of domestic animal skeletons and taxidermy.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

This towering statue of Jesus provided internet to the surrounding area.