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In most hotels, if the temperature dropped to -5 °C (23 °F) inside the room, there would be complaints made to the front desk, but that's the whole point of the Icehotel in northern Sweden. The ...

As the chill of winter sets in, construction teams in Sweden take up the annual task of rebuilding a hotel made entirely of snow and ice. The Icehotel sits 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle in ...

In Arctic circle village of Jukkasjärvi, the hotel is made of snow and ice, melting in spring and being rebuilt in winter with new designs.

Inside Sweden's ICE HOTEL French artist Antoine Weygand and the architect Roland Toupet designed this year's room 339.

The original ICEHOTEL, a pop-up that has been rebuilt every winter, was the world's first hotel made of snow and ice when it opened in 1989, according to CNN.

Autumn is settling over Jukkasjärvi, and ICEHOTEL is buzzing with preparations for ICEHOTEL 36. Here is  a look at sketches ...

Europe's last wilderness, home to Sweden's only indigenous people, and location of the hotel made entirely of ice that melts every spring like a very expensive metaphor.

This year marks 25 years of the original Ice Hotel, carved from snow and ice bricks in far northern Sweden. This story originally aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 29, 2015.

Ice hotels of the Nordic region can be found in the northern wilds of Finland, Sweden, and Norway. Icehotel, in Sweden, was the first and is rebuilt every year with blocks of frozen water from the ...

The original ICEHOTEL, a pop-up that has been rebuilt every winter, was the world's first hotel made of snow and ice when it opened in 1989, according to CNN.

The original ICEHOTEL, a pop-up that has been rebuilt every winter, was the world's first hotel made of snow and ice when it opened in 1989, according to CNN.