The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las), a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees (Poland/ west Pommerania) - stock photo

The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las), is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located outside Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania, Poland. This grove was planted around 1930, it is generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not currently known. It has been speculated that the trees may have been deformed to create naturally curved timber for use in furniture or boat building, or that a snowstorm could have knocked the trees like this, but nobody knows what really happened to these pine trees.