Comprised of 15,000 tons of snow and 500,000 tons of ice, the Hôtel de Glace is a massive undertaking, yet each spring it completely disappears. … Continue reading Hôtel de Glace in STE-CATHERINE-DE-LA-J-CARTIER, Canada
wonders of the worldmarvels and curiosities from the Atlas Obscura.
marvels and curiosities from the Atlas Obscura.
While Sir Ernest Shackleton is often heralded as the hero of polar exploration, he had many contemporaries, among them British naval captain Robert Falcon Scott, who … Continue reading The Snow Tomb of Captain Robert Falcon Scott in Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Deep below one of the world’s most remote outposts, a network of tunnels cut into the ice has come to house “shrines” dedicated to both … Continue reading South Pole Ice Tunnels in Antarctica
Located at the Chena Hot Springs Resort, the Aurora Ice Museum is the world’s largest year-round ice environment. You may be wondering just what this … Continue reading Aurora Ice Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska
In few places can you experience every stage of the water cycle at once. But there’s magic in the Mendenhall Ice Caves, where water runs … Continue reading Mendenhall Ice Caves in Juneau, Alaska
Running beneath the feet of unsuspecting Londoners is an ever-clanging railway that quietly (at least on the surface) secrets parcels, missives, and other mail from … Continue reading The Mail Rail in London, United Kingdom
Famed author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his fabulous wife Zelda were lived opulent lives of wine and roses before falling to respectively tragic ends as … Continue reading The Fitzgeralds’ Gravesite in Rockville, Maryland
The city of Chiatura, Georgia was founded among otherwise uninvitingly steep valleys and deep gorges thanks to a healthy vein of manganese that was ripe … Continue reading The Cable Cars of Chiatura in Chiatura, Georgia
Strewn about a sun-drenched beach on Virgin Gorda Island are a number of massive boulders known collectively as “The Baths,” and hidden around and beneath … Continue reading The Baths in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands