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The Hotel That Melts Every Spring

Sweden Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi Save Add to trip
The Hotel That Melts Every Spring
Photo: Tobias Fischer

Did you know Sweden's famous Icehotel is rebuilt from scratch every winter? Since 1989, artists in the Lapland village of Jukkasjärvi have sculpted rooms, beds and even a bar from tons of ice harvested from the Torne River. Each spring the whole hotel melts back into the river it came from — no two years are ever the same.

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