World’s Wildest Snow and Ice Houses

Each year, organizers of the Quebec City Winter Carnaval build an ice palace for Bonhomme, the carnival's ambassador (he's a snowman-looking mascot). Bonhomme's palace spans 160 feet in width, boasts 65-foot turrets, and uses over 5,000 blocks of ice during the construction process. This year's castle even included a dungeon, which creators joked was for festival-goers who refused to honor Bonhomme's effigy.