Take a stroll through Warsaw’s pristine Old Town and Royal Castle and you’d think the city had enjoyed a comfortable existence the past 200 years. But at the end of WWII they, and nearly the entire metropolis, lay in rubble and ruin. The fact that Varsovians picked themselves up and rebuilt almost everything is reason enough to pay the country’s capital a visit.

Warsaw’s unquenchable energy not only extends to construction. Today it is a thriving, dynamic and progressive city, the epitome of …