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During the renovation of this bas-relief, the constructors added one unusual element.

A small square populated with giant birchwood sculptures.

This wooden mosque is one of the few remnants of medieval Poland's Muslim Tatar community in this deeply Catholic country.

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

This abandoned but well-preserved Prussian fortress sits abandoned in a Polish forest near the German border.

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

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.

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

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

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

Disturbing works of outsider art, carved from whole logs.

A heavily politicized roundabout discussing the state of a heavily politicized country.

The shattered remains of the world's once tallest structure.

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

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

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

The oldest wind turbine in Europe, constructed by a group of friends in 1932.

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

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

People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.

Old cabin-like homes in a rural community untouched by time are known for their vibrant and colorful window shutters.

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.

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