Two Unesco heritage listed sites are near Krakow in Poland. There are Wieliczka salt mine and Auschwitz – Birkenau museum. Both are unusal and worth time in your trip timetable. Wieliczka lies 10 km from Krakow. Mine descends 327 m underground over nine levels. Since 13th century were build passages, chambers and tunnels in total about 300 km underground city. Only less than 1% of this area is open for public The journey through the mine lasts about three hours starting from 380 wooden steps. Beneath you can find restaurants, chapels, including famous Chapel of St Kinga, halls, art exhibitions or even lakes.
About 40 km from Krakow is The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. Auschwitz is German translation to name of Polish town of Oswiecim. Nazis machinery of murders spread over 300 barracks where at the same time over 200,000 were waiting for death. Many buildings were destroyed by Germans but some of them remains. Nowadays they contains museum and exhibitits what happened here during the war. You can see piles of shoes, suitcases, glasses and other property belonged to murdered people…