This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

If you know anything about Central European cities,

when you hear Warsaw, you think, gray, ugly, communist.

But there is a part of Warsaw that is anything but those things.

The old town.

Walking through the historic district, it's just like any other quaint European city,

tourist shops, horse carriage rides, church buyers. The buildings are beautiful.

But actually, it's all fake. It's just a replica of what once was.

Like so many European cities during the Second World War, Warsaw was destroyed.

It had to be rebuilt.

Now when you walk around the reconstructed historic part of Warsaw,

you'll find these big glass-mounted plaques

on display on the sidewalk.

In-memorable paintings of the historic buildings in front of you.

The first time I noticed one of these displays

on Novish Fiat Street, and I was completely drawn in.

I studied the painting, and then I studied the building above.

And just like I was set up to I thought wow they did an amazing job rebuilding it

But then later our reporter Amy Drosdovska found out it's not quite like that.

You're entering something which is effectively a stage set intended to recreate an atmosphere of a certain

period, but you're unaware of that.

That's Mejal Morofsky, who was born in Warsaw.

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