Frank Sinatra once had a song that went: "My kind of town, Chicago is...my kind of town..."

And Karol Wojtyla, before he was named Pope, could have sung the same tune about the city of Krakow. It was definitely his kinda town. He moved here when he was 18 years old. And pretty much lived in this town until the day he was elected Pope!

In fact, this was the apartment he lived in when he and his father first came to Krakow.

It's just a regular apartment now...but you can barely see the place, thanks to the giant sign telling everyone "HEY! DID YOU KNOW JOHN PAUL II USED TO LIVE HERE?! TAKE A PICTURE AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS!"

That'd be a pretty random place to live in today, wouldn't it? You'd get stuck having sketchy people like myself coming by to take pictures for even sketchier websites.

Karol eventually moved out of the apartment when he entered the underground seminary. (For the record, it wasn't literally built underground. But it was forbidden in communist Poland. So he had to study to be a priest in secret.)

He'd become a priest, bishop, and eventually archbishop - and serve this town that he loved.

Here's the Cathedral of Saints Stanislaw and Waclaw, which is one of the most important churches in Poland.

"Cathedral" comes from the word "cathedra" (meaning chair) - and as archbishop, this is the main church of the Archbishop of Krakow. Which means it was his church until he became Pope.

And, oddly enough, this cathedral holds the largest bell in Poland.

Up a completely questionable set of "stairs"...

Put a completely stupid grin on your face while touching the bell...

And that's it! Except, of course, it didn't work.

So I just washed my hands with that anti-bacterial stuff...because who knows what other creepy guys have made this same lonely pilgrimage...and called it a day.