The Pieniny mountain range is divided into three parts - Pieniny Spiskie, Lesser Pieniny, and Pieniny Proper. Pieniny mountains consist mainly of the limestone and dolomite rock strata. The most famous peak, Trzy Korony (Three Crowns), is 982 meters high. Pieniny's highest peak - Wysoka (The Tall One) - reaches 1050 meters above sea level.

Olsztyn - one of the castles along the Eagles Nests Trail, built of local limestone.

Tarnica (1346 m asl) is the highest peak of Bieszczady Mountains. Its covered by alpine meadows typical of Bieszczady Mountains, called "poloniny".

Sniezka (Snow Mountain, 1602 m asl) is the highest mountain in the Karkonosze Mountains, which were once called Reisengebrige - Great Mountains. Mount Sniezka lies directly on the Plish-Czech border.

Hel Peninsula is a 35-km-long sand bar peninsula in northern Poland separating the Bay of Puck from the open Baltic Sea.

Sulphur deposits in the area near Tarnobrzeg originated via microbial decay of sulphates (e.g. gypsum).