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You can eat inside the gingerbread, but you can't eat the gingerbread.
food

Building a Life-Sized Gingerbread House Takes Over 10,000 Cookie Bricks

To be ready by Christmas, you better start baking in August.
Anne Ewbank December 14, 2017
Santa plotting his route, from a holiday card in the New York Public Library collection.
libraries

The Most Festive Treasures of the New York Public Library's Maps Division

We wish you a mappy Christmas.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 11, 2017
A slice of black cake baked by Mrs. Annemarie Charles, from San Fernando, Trinidad.
Gastro Obscura

Black Cake

Fruit soaks in rum for up to a year to make this rich Caribbean Christmas cake.
Spit cake in progress.
Gastro Obscura

Lithuanian Spit Cake

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.
A perfect pie, complete with stars and fish heads.
Gastro Obscura

Stargazy Pie

A traditional Cornish pie that—ARE THOSE FISH HEADS COMING OUT OF THE TOP?!
Mock mushrooms are often added to yule log cakes, made of either meringue or marzipan.
Gastro Obscura

Yule Log Cake

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.
Wilmington, New York

Santa's Workshop

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.
Fran Baxter stands outside her seasonal antiques shop in Christmas Valley, which was once the location of Phillips's office.
deserts

The 1960s Real Estate Mirage of Christmas Valley

Developer M. Penn Phillips had a vision for the Oregon high desert. But there was a reason the area had yet to be developed.
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank August 18, 2017
Permanently Closed
Santa's mailbox
Nuuk, Greenland

Santa’s Mailbox

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.
Seneca Falls, New York

Bridge Street Bridge

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."
Pequena Finlândia in Penedo, Itatiaia
Penedo, Brazil

Penedo

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.
New York, New York

Holiday Nostalgia Train

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.
A miniature New York
Bronx, New York

Holiday Train Show at New York Botanical Garden

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.
A family plays a game of Snapdragon, from the December 25,1858 issue of the <em>Illustrated London News</em>.
victorian

Victorians' Christmas Parlor Games Will Leave You Burned, Bruised, And Puking

Do not try them at home.
George Pendle December 22, 2016
Adoration of the Shepherds by Gerard van Honthorst.
sacred spaces

Why Some Christians Are Forsaking Christmas

To them, Jesus is not the reason for the season.
Mariana Zapata December 21, 2016
Did you get a Christingle this year?
objects of intrigue

This Christmas, Jam a Candle in an Orange

Add some ribbon and candy kebabs and you've got yourself a Christingle.
Eric Grundhauser December 20, 2016
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tumbleweed Snowman

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.
Riga, Latvia

First-Ever Public Christmas Tree Marker

A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.