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Santa Claus

Tecopa, California

Dumont Dunes North Pole

Peek inside this sandy mailbox and you'll spot kids' letters to Santa.

Site of the Santa Claus Bank Robbery

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

Pepernoten

Every December, Sinterklaas and his helper throw these little spiced cookies to Dutch children.

Chocolate Letters

In this Dutch holiday tradition, Sinterklaas leaves good children sweet pieces of the alphabet inside their shoes.

Rovaniemi, Finland

Santa Claus's Main Post Office

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

The North Pole in August.

WaKeeney, Kansas

WaKeeney North Pole

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

Santa plotting his route, from a holiday card in the New York Public Library collection.

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

Wilmington, New York

Santa's Workshop

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

Have you seen his bones?

Have Turkish Archaeologists Found the Final Resting Place of Saint Nick?

A tomb in Myra adds to confusion over relics of the beloved icon.

Vittoria Traverso October 3, 2017

Permanently Closed

Santa's mailbox

Nuuk, Greenland

Santa’s Mailbox

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

Pequena Finlândia in Penedo, Itatiaia

Penedo

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

Sweden Has Won The Annual Santa Olympics

This year's events included present-wrapping, tree-decorating, lasso-throwing, and a dance-off.

Cara Giaimo December 12, 2016

The Santa Claus schoolhouse.

9 Bizarre Schools That We Promise Actually Exist

School is in session for gladiators, dead bodies, and Santas.

Oliver Hong September 8, 2016

Permanently Closed

Santa Claus, Arizona.

Golden Valley, Arizona

Santa Claus, Arizona

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Midland, Michigan

Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

North Pole, Alaska

Santa Claus House

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Near Lake Arrowhead, California

SkyPark at Santa's Village

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Talking to the Visionary Who Made Santa a Business Man

Andy Wright December 22, 2015