A glacier beneath the city
Olsztyn as the pilot: 8 glacial landforms beneath present-day buildings, a terrain profile and a two-hour city walk.
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TOPIC INDEX
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150 projects in 15 thematic sections.
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01Water that drives the landscapeMills, canals and the energy of rivers.10 projects02Invisible waterFilled-in streams and hidden water circuits.10 projects03Vanished railwaysRoutes where trains no longer run.10 projects04Former industriesIndustrial works, raw materials and traces of labour.10 projects05Former bordersDivisions that can still be seen in the landscape.10 projects06Vanishing settlementsSubmerged, abandoned and forgotten places.10 projects07Old roads and pilgrimagesJourneys along old trails.10 projects08GeologyIce, sand and time written into the terrain.10 projects09Light and coastLighthouses and the landscape of the shore.10 projects10Spa townsSprings, brine and the culture of health resorts.10 projects11FloweringOrchards, plants and the short windows of the season.10 projects12WeatherFog, wind and the changing landscape.10 projects13Seasonal phenomenaNature seen at the right moment.10 projects14Traces of systemsInfrastructure that linked places.10 projects15Process storiesWhat is at work here – and how can it be shown?10 projects
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Loading projects…A map of autumn colour
A static map of 10–12 regions with typical weeks of colour change, dominant species and a route on site.
A pilot on the roadstead
The story of one ship's entry into port shown on a map, with an archival pilot cutter and an interview with a working pilot.
A region for rainy days
For one region, 12 year-round indoor places arranged into 2–3 ready-made day trips.
A village fire pond
One village, e.g. Sosnowa: the pond, the fire station, the process of drawing water and local fire history.
A week of linden scent
One route through the Wirty Arboretum with 5–7 lime trees, species identification and an indicative scent calendar.
A year with a stork's nest
An annual timeline of one nest’s life, set in data from 23 Biebrza villages, with a map that withholds precise sensitive data.
Above the sea of clouds
A guide to 5–6 points in the Giant Mountains (Karkonosze) explaining inversions and typical conditions, not a live forecast.
Abutments without bridges
One county and 5 objects with a confirmed history, instead of a nationwide map.
Aerial ropeways of Silesia
The five best-documented aerial ropeways, with their routes and surviving supports.
Bats at dusk
A one-evening route near Oleśnica: 4 points, sonograms of calls and ethical rules for observation.
Benchmarks of the great levelling
A route of 10–12 easily visible benchmarks in one town, with an animation of height transfer.
Blossoming orchards of the Grójec region
A single car-and-cycle loop with 6 stops, apple varieties and indicative flowering windows.
Bog iron in Kurpie
From bog iron ore to an iron bloom: a map of the raw material and a demonstration of one bloomery cycle.
Bołtryki, Garbary, Łuka and Rudnia
Map of the four villages from the title and their recollections; present Budy as additional context or a fifth stage, if the project is to cover all the cleared villages.
Border of the Free City of Gdańsk
One section of the former border, e.g. Przebrno, with confirmed stones and crossings; without claiming an unverified number of surviving posts.
Boulders that came from the north
One region with 15 boulders: the place, the rock type, the presumed source area in Scandinavia and legal access.
Carpathian fulling mills
Five documented Carpathian fulling mills, starting with the object from Krościenko in the Sądecki Ethnographic Park.
Ceramic drains
A field-and-museum essay: 6–8 stages from a clay pipe to a drained field, anchored in Szreniawa.
Charcoal clamps of the Bieszczady
A map of charcoal-burning sites and a model of a charcoal clamp from stacking the wood to drawing the charcoal.
Cieszyn on both sides of the Olza
A bilingual walk through 10 pairs of places that formed a single organism before 1920.
Coastal rescue stations
A map of historical and present-day SAR stations with 8 profiles, former equipment and current rules for visits.
Czerniawa-Zdrój
The former small spa as part of today's Świeradów: the Spa House, the springs and a clear timeline of administrative changes.
Dark skies by train
A single night micro-expedition across the Jakuszyce Clearing to the Izera Dark Sky Park, with a return option and safety rules.
Divided fields of Spisz and Orawa
Three disputed sections with the proposal lines of 1920–1924 and plots cut across by the boundary decision.
Długopole-Zdrój
The pump room, park, three springs and the railway history of access, fitted into a 60–90 minute walk.
Drains beneath a Greater Poland field
One municipality and one documented estate with a drainage plan set against the digital terrain model.
Empty valleys of Beskid Niski
Three valleys with one route each, plans of former farmsteads, cemeteries, orchards and traces of roads visible in the digital terrain model (NMT).
Eskers of the Suwałki region
The five most legible eskers and kames of Suwałki Landscape Park with profiles and legal observation points.
Estate boundaries in Kampinos
A narrower pilot: the boundaries of the village of Głusk and of the Kampinos starostwo at 6–8 present-day field points.
Fences against snow
An illustrated process in 6–8 historical examples: wind, snow transport, the placing of a fence and a drift away from the road.
First frost on the floodplain wetlands
Once the site is specified: a static calendar of first frosts and their traces in the Biebrza landscape.
Fish get past the dam
An animation of one fish pass on the Rega with 6–8 species and frames from published monitoring, without a live stream.
Flax retting pits of Podlasie
One area and 5 sites indicated by sources or residents' memory, with the flax-processing sequence.
Floating timber down the San
A map of the route from the upper San to Ulanów with five stages of the raftsman's work.
Flowering floodplain meadows
Once a valley is chosen: 5–8 sites with meadow types, species and a safe visiting window.
Forest glassworks of the Holy Cross Mountains
Three confirmed glassworks with a reconstruction of the demand for wood, sand and potash.
Forest railways of the Białowieża Forest
The historical network, distinguishing economic lines from today's tourist route.
Former arms of the Oder
Three vanished arms in Wrocław, with maps from two dates and a description of the changes.
From Nowa Słupia to Święty Krzyż
The two-kilometre Royal Road with a historical timeline, five stops and a practical description of the climb.
From waterwheel to turbine on the Bóbr
Five power stations of the Bóbr cascade with cross-sections, dates and a comparison of capacity.
Galicia facing the Kingdom
The Bełżec–Narol variant: two administrations, roads and villages on both sides of the former border.
Greater Poland, land of windmills
Select 10–15 well-documented windmills with a map, types of mechanisms and checked access.
Harbour semaphores
One port and a closed glossary of its entry signals with the date of validity and a historical gallery of devices.
High-water marks
A map of 10–15 high-water marks with the date, height and a short history of the event.
Hop-garden landscape of the Lublin region
Krasnystaw County: a map of historical plantations, the construction of a hop garden and a calendar of work.
Hops before the harvest
Once a partner is secured: a loop of 5–7 plantations in one county with the plant's cycle from shoot to cone.
Horyniec-Zdrój and the Brusno stone
Two linked loops: the history of the springs of Horyniec and the trace of the stone from former Brusno through the workshop to crosses and gravestones.
How a lighthouse shines
One well-documented case, e.g. Rozewie: interactive light, optics and flash characteristics. Add a short comparison with another generation of equipment, without generalising the Fresnel lens to all working lighthouses.
How the Milicz Ponds are filled
An interactive diagram of one pond complex: inflow, sluices, filling and draining.
Ice before the refrigerator
Five icehouses of different types and the seasonal chain of obtaining, storing and using ice.
Inland dunes
An atlas of the dunes of Kampinos National Park with 10 landforms, cross-sections, origins and legal points along the trails.
Jastrzębie-Zdrój before the mines
A map of the former resort before the development of mining: pump room, park, bathhouses and the moment the town passed from spa to collieries.
Lakes left by dead ice
One national or landscape park with 6–8 kettle lakes, their origin and short approaches.
Land of Extinct Volcanoes
A narrow theme, e.g. five places showing a cross-section of a former volcano, instead of repeating the whole geopark.
Last railway stations before the border
Compare two former border stations: the Prussian Nowe Skalmierzyce and the Russian Aleksandrów Kujawski. This is a comparison of two places, not a pair of neighbouring stations.
Lighthouses that lost their ground to the sea
Only after a source search: 3–4 documented lighthouses or lights for which the shift of the shoreline can be calculated.
Lime kilns of the Polish Jura
A route of ten kilns with a simple animation of lime burning.
Łódź's rivers under the streets
A map of 6 covered watercourses with street cross-sections and 15 points accessible from the surface.
Loess ravines without the crowds
Six lesser-known ravines in one county with a description of the surface, the approach and seasonal restrictions.
Lost branches of the Bieszczady Forest Railway
Three disused branches with a comparison of maps, aerial photographs and traces in the field.
Map of morning fog
A static climatological map with 8 regions and the conditions that favour fog, without a forecast for today.
Millponds turned into fields
One microregion and 8 ponds visible on historical maps, not a nationwide catalogue.
Millraces of Bielsko-Biała
An overlay of two former millraces on today's streets with 12 industrial points.
Mills of a vanished stream
Choose one valley with a genuinely vanished watercourse; reconstruct several mills, ponds and millraces on a historical and a modern map.
Mills on the Radunia
A timeline and map from the former mills to the Łapino–Bielkowo power plants with 8–10 points.
Narrow-gauge sugar railways of Kuyavia
The networks of three sugar factories during the beet campaign shown on a single map of seasonal transport.
Navigation marks of the Vistula Lagoon
An educational map of marking types on a single body of water, with an IALA A animation and the current state as of a stated date.
Old Łeba under the sand
A loop from the ruins of St Nicholas's church to the dunes, with a plan of Stara Łeba, a storm timeline and a clear distinction between the ruins and the later legend of a town beneath the sand.
Old Maniowy
A comparison of the layout of Stare and Nowe Maniowy with the resettlement axis, the relocated chapel and three field points.
Old Żywiec and Zadziele
Two settlements on a cadastral plan, five object histories and a route of viewpoints above the lake.
On the watershed of two seas
One specific crossing of the Baltic Sea–Black Sea watershed, with 8 points showing where the water flows on both sides.
One block of ice
Six frames: cutting ice from an oxbow lake of the Bug, transport, stacking, sawdust insulation, summer and use.
One drop of brine
An animation of a drop's path from the intake through the graduation towers to the salt-boiling house and the salt crystal.
One letter before the railway
A letter's axis from posting through the stagecoach, post stations and change of horses to delivery.
One lighthouse keeper's night
An openly labelled reconstruction of a historical working night at Rozewie, once the duties are confirmed in the documentation. Do not present the biography as a record of a specific shift.
One night in the lighthouse
The same reconstruction of a historical night as in 90. Distinguish the biography from the actually documented shift; do not build a second, separate project.
One sack of grain
A seven-stage journey of a sack from the measure of grain, through the mill's machinery in Ciechanowiec, to a loaf.
One sugar beet
An animated path of a beet through 8 stages: washing, slicing, diffusion, purification, evaporation and crystallisation.
One tree trunk
Two variants of the same axis: a modern log from clear-cut to sawmill, and a historical log floated down the San.
One year in one landscape
Once a site is chosen: 12 photographs from a fixed frame, a timeline of phenomena and a short description of one change in each month.
Orchards of old varieties
After choosing one region, a catalogue of 8–10 accessible orchards, varieties and flowering and harvest times.
Orchid week
A static calendar and 6–8 legally accessible points in Ponidzie, without publishing sensitive sites.
Owl Mountains rack railway
The whole line with its elevation profile, rack sections and surviving viaducts.
Paper mills on the Kwisa
Ławszowa as a pilot: the documented history of the paper mill and a diagram of the role of water in papermaking. Extension to Gryfów and Mirsk only after a separate verification of the works.
Plum landscape of the Lower Vistula
A map of 6–10 orchards and sites along the Vistula around Strzelce Dolne, with two seasons for a visit: blossom and harvest.
Przerzeczyn-Zdrój
A historical atlas of the spa with a separately verified, dated formal status and state of accessibility; the map covers only objects visible from public roads.
Pump rooms and springs of small spa towns
Six small spa towns with a map of pump rooms, springs, parks and walks; with no health advice, and with the state of accessibility given as of a date.
Pumps and wells of one municipality
Once a municipality is chosen, an inventory of 8–12 pumps with the type of mechanism, condition and a resident's recollection.
Railway water cranes
A catalogue of 6–10 water cranes with an animation of filling a steam locomotive, anchored in the Chabówka open-air museum.
Roads hollowed into the earth
One microregion with 8–12 verified hollow ways, a digital terrain model (NMT) hillshade and a short field loop.
Sand railways of Upper Silesia
The northern main line and one sand pit–mine chain with unloading facilities.
Sidings of Starachowice
Connections of the blast furnace, the standard-gauge railway and the narrow-gauge railway on a single plan of the works.
Skawce before Lake Mucharz
A plan of the core buildings of Skawce and Zagórze before the flooding, relocated objects and three legal viewpoints.
Sławinek, Lublin's lost spa
A walk around the former Sławinek: two springs, bathhouses, guesthouses, a manor house and a park on the plan of the 19th-century spa.
Tar works of the Tuchola Forest
Five sites or villages associated with tar burning, plus a reconstruction of the process.
The amphibians' spring road
One confirmed local migration route with an animation of the amphibians' path, a calendar and rules for safe observation.
The Baltic in winter
A static guide to 6 winter phenomena and safe points on the coast, illustrated with archival ice maps.
The Baltic's night alphabet
An interactive decoder of 12 light characteristics on the Polish coast, with a current source and the date it applies from.
The border that cut through Upper Silesia
A Gliwice–Zabrze–Knurów section with works, streets and railways cut by the border.
The border through Krajna
The Złotów–Więcbork–Sępólno section with the 1920–1939 line and divided villages.
The brine's journey through Ciechocinek
A functional brine circuit: intake–graduation towers–salt-boiling house. The page's own diagram of the process and visiting points; do not publish a presumed exact course of the underground pipeline.
The Carpathian cradle of oil
Bóbrka and four neighbouring places on an axis from the hand-dug well to the oil shaft.
The cranes' autumn assembly
A guide to the tower in Zastawie with the historical window of the season, the time of the flight-in and rules for observation.
The Drna beneath Warsaw
A 6.5 km route with a map of the former channel and 10 traces visible from the street.
The first hour of the dawn chorus
An interactive clock of 8–12 species and one morning route in Karkonosze National Park.
The Gdańsk–Elbląg–Braniewo post road
The Gdańsk–Elbląg section with former post stations, crossings and a comparison of maps from the 18th and 19th centuries; Braniewo as a second stage.
The grid left by a peatland
Krowie Bagno: the historical ditch network, orthophotos and the effect of drainage on a single peatland landscape.
The gypsum karst of Ponidzie
Skorocice and 4–5 nearby forms: sinkholes, swallow holes, caves and gypsum outcrops, solely from legal paths.
The Hungarian Road through Dukla
Dukla–Barwinek with a branch to Jaśliska: customs houses, wine stores, the pass and safe off-road variants.
The Kłodnica Canal that isn't there
The course of the Koźle–Gliwice canal with selected locks and a comparison with the present-day Gliwice Canal.
The Lagoon Railway, Elbląg–Braniewo
Line 254: stations, views, archival photographs and the state of each section.
The last day before the flooding
A photographic then-and-now axis of Maniowy with 8–10 points and one documented testimony of displacement.
The last train
A timeline of the last run to Osowa Góra, 6 points of the former line and a comparison of the track with today's landscape.
The Mława–Działdowo gateway
A road and railway corridor between towns, with borders from before and after 1920.
The Prosna border
The Chocz–Nowe Skalmierzyce stretch with crossings, posts and the asymmetry of settlements on both banks.
The purple of the heathland
A guide to the heathland at Orzechów: 4–6 points, the process of protecting the habitat and a static flowering window.
The river that appears after rain
One Jura valley with a dry and a wet photographic variant, a diagram of an episodic stream and a legal route.
The salt road from Bochnia to Czchów
First a source search; if the route is not confirmed, switch to the well-documented Bochnia–Uście Solne or Bochnia–Wojnicz section.
The sea written in stone
One region and 6 outcrops of former marine environments, with a reconstruction of the organisms and the rules for legal viewing.
The track that isn't there
Choose one closed line and show its course, stations and the stretches available on foot or by bike.
The Vistula castle road
One route, e.g. Malbork–Sztum–Kwidzyn, explaining which sections are the historical road and which a modern connector.
The voice of a freezing lake
Once a lake is chosen: a gallery of 6–8 recordings with an explanation of the physics, listened to from the shore only.
The wood that smells of wild garlic
A short route around the Wielki Las nature reserve with the phenology of ramsons (wild garlic) and rules of protection.
Three Emperors' Corner
A single page about the place: three states, three banks, crossings and archival postcards.
To Gietrzwałd by the old road
One documented route, e.g. Olsztyn–Gietrzwałd once the former course has been confirmed. Compare the old road with a safe walking route, and add a return by public transport with the date of the information and a link to the operator.
Town weigh houses and road scales
A two-part story, Nysa and the modern road: from the town's weighing privilege to the axle load of a lorry.
Two lights in one line
Three leading-light pairs with an animation of how the lights line up and public viewing points on land.
Valley of mills on the Dłubnia
A map of one stretch of the Dłubnia with 10 mills, their state of preservation and a short route.
Via Regia across Lower Silesia
One section, e.g. Wrocław–Legnica, setting the historical High Road alongside today's waymarked Camino.
Villages beneath Lake Solina
Four villages or hamlets: Solina, Teleśnica Sanna, Chrewt and Podleszczyny, with a map of the reservoir's extent and viewpoints.
Villages lost to the Bełchatów mine
Six settlements with a map of the opencast mine's advance, family histories and a safe route along public viewpoints.
Villages under water
One reservoir, as in the original idea. The Włocławek Reservoir as a proposed pilot: 4–6 villages, a former map, selected recollections with permission to use them and accessible points on the shore.
Wapienne
A map of Wapienne with named springs, the history of rebuilding and an hour-long loop through the park.
Warmian pilgrimages to Święta Lipka
Two historically attested pilgrimages from selected parishes to Święta Lipka, with a calendar, rest points and former sacred markers.
Warsaw's first pilgrimage to Jasna Góra
A timeline of the 1711 journey with documented stopping places, and a separate, honestly marked reconstruction of the uncertain sections.
Wash-houses by the stream
First a pilot in one village: the washing place, tools, water circulation and accounts from the women who lived there.
Water meadows of the Sudetes
First a study of one confirmed system; do not build a catalogue without locations.
Water-powered industry on the Czarna Konecka
A map of the chain of works with an axis of energy flow, focused on Maleniec and 5 neighbouring points.
Waterfalls the day after a downpour
A conditional but static guide to 5–7 waterfalls near Komańcza: the mechanism, a safe approach, and the difference between low and high water.
What drought reveals
A static story of the Słup reservoir: Brachów, Żarek and features exposed at low water, without encouraging anyone to walk onto the bed.
What the snow shows
An illustrated key to 12–17 tracks and one safe educational route in the Międzychód Forest District.
When a lighthouse spoke in sound
Rozewie as a study of the siren house, nautophones and fog cannons, supplemented by a map of 3–4 other historical signals.
When the Biebrza becomes a lake
A map of 6 safe viewpoints on the high bank, the flooding mechanism and a static calendar of a typical season.
When the ponds bloom
A guide to 4–6 accessible sites in the Barycz Valley with yellow water-lilies, white water-lilies and a static calendar.
When the windmill works
A single windmill mechanism card and a calendar of demonstrations in Tokarnia, explaining the wind conditions required.
Where the Vistula breached the embankment
Map of the 2010 flood: Koćmierzów, Wilków and Świniary with a chronology of the breaches.
Wooden mills on the Grabia
A catalogue of 8–12 mills on an existing trail, with a map of their state of preservation.
Zarzecze beneath Lake Goczałkowice
A single precise map of Zarzecze with a timeline of the reservoir's construction, five sites and a route along accessible points around the water.
Żegiestów-Zdrój
A walk from the station through the Spa House to the springs, with a timeline of the spa's heyday, decline and rebuilding.
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