Somewhere in the world, winter transforms a mountainside into an entire army of ghostly white giants. These aren't sculptures carved by human hands; they're trees completely encased in thick layers of ...

Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.

The Earth is endowed with the most breathtaking wonders that one would only imagine to be out of an animated movie. Amidst breathtaking winter landscapes around the world, few spots rival Japan's ...

Yamagata, Japan, Feb. 5, 2012: The “snow monsters,” or “juhyo” in Japanese, at the top of Mount Zao in Yamagata, Japan, are actually windswept, snow-covered trees. The formation of the thick frost and ...