An icy winter has transformed the tall trees of the Zao mountain range into wonderous snow sculptures, known as “juhyo,” or “snow monsters,” and conditions are now perfect to see them. On ...

Forget the traditional snowman—these sculptures take things to the next level with designs ranging from hilarious animals to bizarre shapes you’d never expect to see crafted out of snow.

Winter in Sweden. Competitions are held to make sculptures out of snow. Every year a hotel is built entirely of snow and ice. Snow is blown onto a metal frame. Once the frame is removed the snow ...

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YUZAWA, Japan >> The Inukko Matsuri (Yuzawa Inukko Dog Festival), a traditional Lunar New Year festival in which people make ...

Full-scale production for the snow sculptures continued from Jan. 7 to Feb. 2. During that 27-day period, 21 days, or nearly 80 percent of the total, had highs of zero or higher. At times ...

How many zoo animals can say that they got their very own snow sculpture? Well, these two lucky polar bears can!

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Ltd. Known as China's "Ice City," Harbin is the cradle of the country's modern winter sports and boasts a history of ice-and-snow artistry dating back over six decades. The Harbin Ice-Snow World has ...

the capital of Heilongjiang province in Northeast China known as the "city of ice," this year's park was constructed with 300,000 cubic meters of ice and snow. Beyond its artistic ice sculptures ...

I’m shivering on a bed of ice, nothing but the chattering of my teeth and the sound of howling huskies as company. The ...