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.

and a chance to marvel at large-scale snow sculptures. Created by Team North Dakota Snow Sculpting, the eight-by-eight-by-10-foot sculpture showcases traditional Scandinavian rose patterns in a ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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 ...

Visitors are flocking to Sapporo, northern Japan, to see frozen sculptures at the festival, which marks its 70th anniversary this year. Almost 200 snow and ice sculptures are on display at three ...

China's annual Ice And Snow Festival, with its fairytale ice sculptures, opened recently, attracting throngs of tourists who shuffled carefully over the slippy ice and snow and dragged their ...

SAPPORO--The internationally popular Sapporo Snow Festival will be held in February but with fewer and smaller ice sculptures, no sales vendors and zero stage events, the executive committee said.