Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

This imposing 20th-century castle was abandoned before it was ever completed.

This enormous 32-foot painting depicts Poland's greatest medieval battle in glorious detail.

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

Modern art commemorates one of the first military actions of World War II.

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

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

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

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

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

Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.

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

Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

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

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

An underground city of salt.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.

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

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