Places VANDERULE Wants to Go

A towering relic of Upper Silesia’s industrial past, the blast furnace of Huta Pokój stands as a monumental reminder of the region’s former role as one of Central Europe’s most important iron and steel production centers.

A striking church with a Tolkien-inspired nickname.

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

These beautiful castle ruins are nestled in the Polish countryside.

A Bauhaus co-founder designed this quirky, abandoned granary.

A small square populated with giant birchwood sculptures.

The rusting hulk of a Soviet warship sits on a Polish beach.

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

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.

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

Relive a Polish uprising via an enormous, century-old cyclorama.

On this Polish road, an optical illusion makes cars seem to roll uphill.

While the U.S. and Soviet Union were engaged in a space race, Poland built a UFO on the ground.

This Communist-era residential block is one of the longest residential building in Europe.

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

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

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

A collection of modern and vintage pinball machines housed in the cellar of a 15th-century building.

Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.

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

A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.

In northeastern Poland, the ruins of a massive granary overlook the Narew River.

This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.

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