A bronze statue commemorates the children who lost their lives in the Warsaw Rising.

This museum is home to 74,000 artifacts and vivid displays of the cultural heritage of the Polish people.

This white fountain was designed in 1855 by Henryk Marconi as part of the city's first sewer and filter system.

This English-style park is right next door to the more formal Lazienki Park.

The buildings on this street, which resemble those of Paris' Place Vendome, were part of a communist housing development built on ruins following WWII.

Church founded in 1657 for nuns from France, Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. In the Warsaw Uprising of WW II, the nuns sheltered first civilians, then wounded insurgents in the church and convent. The Germans bombed the church, killing almost 1,000 inside. The church was rebuilt after 1949.

This huge parish church is known for its magnificent Baroque ornamentation in the chapels of the Holy Cross, which feature a 16th-century crucifix and the Virgin Mary.

This scenic palace, built between 1768-1773 for Kazimierz Raczynski, features late Baroque architecture with those of early classicism.

Piotrkowska Street - the center of Łódź    (photo by Jaime Silva, Lisboa, Portugal) This street is the main street of the city, one of the longest pedestrianized commercial thoroughfares in Europe...