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China's Magical "Ice City" Draws Visitors From All Over the World

The first time you see it, you might have trouble believing it's real.

It's an entire city of ice sculptures that rival brick-and-mortar architecture in their complexity. Harbin, the capital of China's northernmost province, Heilongjiang, has been hosting its International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival since 1985, and the annual tradition has become ever more ambitious and ornate in recent years. There are replicas of world-famous structures like the Colosseum and the Great Sphinx, all of them illuminated in vibrant colors to add to the spectacle, which features 8 million square feet devoted to the installation of palaces, bridges, and other icy marvels. It takes thousands of workers to cut the 460,000 cubic feet of ice blocks required to create Harbin's Ice and Snow World.

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A number of airlines offer "stopover programs," in which you book a ticket from your home city to one destination, while stopping for a few days in another city along the way without added airfare cost. Find out how they work and which airlines offer stopovers.

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