Where the Buffalo ... Relax

 

Wola National Park near Szczeczin has a buffalo sanctuary for European bison. They're big, but smaller than American bison. And they tend to be pretty placid. Poland has approximately 15k bison out in the wild.

Riese Tunnels Big Enough for Cars

 

This is one of the now-uncovered entrances to Project Riese. It was hidden for decades before coming to light. Helped that it's in a forested rural area of Poland. And the tunnels were big enough to let cars drive - because the network was going to be huge.

Euro Bison

Wola National Park is on an island near Szczeczin (Stettin) on the Polish-German border. They have a bison sanctuary there that you can visit. Euro bison are definitely smaller than the American version.

 

Autumn Walkies

Puppies posing on an autumn day.

 

Looking Down Tunnels

Tunnels to look down and a bit of the tools used. Notice now they squared everything up and backfilled arched ceilings.

 

Find the Puppy

Where'd he go?

 

Into the City

Outside of the guard rooms, nothing was truly finished in the excavations. They go on for miles, and some connect with each other. But they're not finished off. It was hard and brutal work with very little in true mining equipment. The Poles have done a good job showing what was what, though, with researchers having been filmed and put into holograms to explain things - in English and Polish.