Zaniemyśl lies next to a series of lakes, making it a popular tourist destination.

Niezamyśl was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Pyzdry County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

[3] During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), several Poles from Zaniemyśl, including landowners, teachers and a school principal, were among the victims of a public execution of Poles, perpetrated by the occupiers in nearby Środa Wielkopolska on October 20, 1939.

[5] The Polish resistance movement was active in Zaniemyśl, including local units of the Wielkopolska Organizacja Wojskowa, Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich and Home Army.

[6] Bogdan Wysocki, organizer of the unit of the Wielkopolska Organizacja Wojskowa, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1940, then held in various prisons, sentenced to death in Zwickau and executed in Dresden in 1942, whereas Zbigniew Leonard Kasztelan, leader of the local unit of the Home Army, was arrested by the Gestapo in April 1944, and then imprisoned, tortured, sentenced to death and executed in Żabikowo in 1945.