Grab a warm cup of hot chocolate and enjoy these wonderfully wintry images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest. A quaint resort sits at the base of these majestic snow-capped mountains.

Explore Bettmeralp, a secret alpine village nestled high above the Rhone Valley and famed for its postcard-perfect winter ...

Photos on WeChat showed large cotton wool sheets ... turned out to be fake. A worker at the Snow Village's management office ...