Japan's famed "snow monsters" may actually be ghosts of an ancient blast. For years, the hulking, ice-coated trees that ...

At an elevation of more than 6,000 feet near the top of a volcano exists a land of snow monsters, a mountainside that is home to fleeting figures that come each winter and then fade along with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At night, the Zao Snow Monsters are illuminated with colored lights so visitors can continue to marvel them after dark. Photograph ...

Japan's iconic "juhyo," or snow monsters of Mount Zao, are shrinking due to climate change and forest pest outbreaks. These unique ice-covered trees, once towering, are now significantly smaller, ...

ZAO ONSEN, JAPAN >> Ashley Huang had seen the pictures on the internet, and they were mesmerizing: huge, Godzilla-like creatures, naturally formed by snow and ice, encasing conifer trees spread across ...

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 ...

As Japan’s tourism hot spots attract more and more travelers, there’s never been a better time to go off the beaten path and explore relatively under-visited places like Yamagata Prefecture. While ...

Feb 21 -- At an elevation of more than 6,000 feet near the top of a volcano exists a land of snow monsters, a mountainside that is home to fleeting figures that come each winter and then fade along ...