Between the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon, on the Kruglaya Dune of the Curonian Spit, there is a forest where the pine trees seem to be doing the twist.
Dozens of trees in the Dancing Forest of Russia have trunks that are contorted into rings, spirals, and other loops and squiggles, and the reason for this mysterious malformation is not known. The trees were planted in the early 1960s to stabilize the dune sand, but the unstable sand is one explanation people posit for the trees seeming so unstable themselves. Locals call the crooked wood the Drunken Forest.
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| The resort Rauschen – Svetlogorsk en ru | 52.5km | site_izi | |||
| From Zelenogradsk to Svetlogorsk… de en ru | 34.3km | site_izi | |||
| Borodino: Histories, Geography and I. Map of the events en ru | 89.4km | site_izi | |||
| Nowy Dwór Gdański the capital of Żuławy en es pl | 155.4km | site_izi | |||
| Fort No. 5 “Friedrich Wilhelm III” | 2020 | 54.5km | site_ao | ||
| ‘The Black Ghost’ | 2019 | 61km | site_ao | ||
| Saint Nicholas Naval Cathedral | 2019 | 153km | site_ao | ||
| Wisłoujście Fortress | 2018 | 164.8km | site_ao | ||
| Bismarck Tower Ruin | 2018 | 115.9km | site_ao | ||
Torpedownia  | 2018 | 162km | site_ao | ||
| The Abandoned Stańczyki Viaducts | 2018 | 151.3km | site_ao | ||
| Karosta North Pier | 2018 | 150.7km | site_ao | ||
| Ruins at Westerplatte | 2016 | 164.8km | site_ao | ||
| The Extinct Town of Schirwindt | 2017 | 135.5km | site_ao | ||
| Trójstyk Granic | 2017 | 153.6km | site_ao | ||
| A Small Part of Russia That Does Not Touch Any Other Part of Russia | 2017 | 58.3km | site_ao | ||
| House of Soviets | 56.8km | site_brutalism | |||
| Curonian Spit | 2000 | 12.4km | site_whs |
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