Polar Week

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

The coldest city in the world.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Antarctica's only sculpture garden, it has art and penguins, but no plants in sight.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Considered the most remote point in the entire world.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.