Poland pictures. Poland has many interesting places, but not all of them can be absorbed easily. Auschwitz (in Poland called Oswiecim) was the largest Nazi concentration camp in WWII (more than a million people died here), and can now be visited as a museum - a very shocking experience. The related Auschwitz II: Birkenau camp can also be visited, which hasn't been turned into a museum, but was left intact and you can walk around the parts of the camp that weren't destroyed by fleeing Nazi soldiers.

As for the more pleasant parts of Poland: though many towns (including capital city Warsaw) suffered great damage in World War II, from which they are still recovering, their old towns were completely resurrected and beautifully restored - pictures in this gallery display the downtowns of Warsaw (Warszawa) and a smaller town, Cracow (Kraków).