Damn, it’s hot out there. Lower your core temp with a cruise through these cold-as-ice pics.

Japanese macaques practice the revered Northern art of “I’m rubbing your face in the snow until you say uncle” in Jigokudani, Nagano.
Out of the sauna and straight into the snow – they must have very strong hearts in Lapland.
A glacier lagoon in Iceland.
The house that holds this indoor pool is a lot cooler than my house.
The best kind of summer hang?
This picture of Goðafoss, a waterfall in Iceland, was a contender in National Geographic’s Outdooe Scenes Photo Contest 2013. (Photo by Joshua Holko)
“Kool thing, sittin’ with a kitty” — Kim Gordon in Sonic Youth’s 1990 “Kool Thing” video
Ice fishing — you’ll freeze your bass off (sorry).
We have no idea who Alessandra Ambrosio is, but she sure likes ice cream.
An avalanche heads for a highway in Norway.
Every year on New Year’s Day, insane Chicagoans join the Polar Bears Club by plunging into the frigid waters of Lake Michigan. Check out way more of the madness at this killer Polar Bear Plunge gallery by the Chicago Tribune.
More Polar Bears.
Cool paws, bro.
A frozen waterfall in Slovenia.
At -30C, Swedish paratroopers cool off in the snow after a sauna (Jukkasjarvi, Sweden © Bryan and Cherry Alexander / LUZphoto)
Dive in, the water’s fine.
Mia Farrow was a pretty cool customer back in the day.
Luuuuuuge! Vintage poster for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.
Oh, just let it go. (Photo via DisneyWiki)
The eternally cool Bjork and her son, Iceland, 1993 (Photo via The Face magazine)
Ski bunny! (vintage poster for ski trips to the Dolomites)
Carvel’s Cookie Puss: still the coolest birthday cake ever.
Fudgie the whale: not quite as cool, but just as cold.
The dreamiest swimming hole.
Icy-hot: Ursula Andress as Dr. Honey Ryder in Dr. No
A glacier calving.
A vintage ice rink in the Valley (Encino, CA): Read more here.
Ice cubes go in your ice T.
Spiderman ice pop (with TWO gumball eyes!)
More superhero ice pops (imaginary this time). But where’s Mr. Freeze?
Oh, here he is.
Waitresses in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland (photo by Agnieszka Rayss / Sputnik Photos / Anzenberger)
Stay at a hotel made completely of ice in Sweden.
The restaurant: also all ice.
You can even go to ice church.
An ice storm, but not the key-swapping party kind.
Skating on the Boston Common Frog Pond, in the oldest public park in the U.S.
The Mayor and First Lady of Walt Disney World cut some ice.
Cool distortion caused by water in George Silk’s 1962 photograph of swimmer Kathy Flicker for LIFE magazine
Super clear ice for your cocktails: very cool.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure facility on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen where seeds for every variety of plant under the sun are stored in case of global catastrophe, is not just cool, it might actually save the world someday.
Eat my snow! 15-year-old skiing prodigy Andrea Mead Lawrence practicing for Winter Olympics in 1952. (Photo by Time Life Pictures//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
From the icy snow plain to the icier water.
Bikini ski team?
Reindeer pulling sleighs do exist, even if Santa doesn’t.
A very cool sauna-and-hot tub setup in a chalet in the French Alps.
Vikings: eternally cool.
Vintage shots of Vassar girls ice-skating. © Vassar College/ Archives & Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries
Little House on the Snow Prairie.
They don’t look cold, but they must be?
Thomas Eakins, “The Swimming Hole” (1884). Photo from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Ice-skaters at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
Notorious ice queen Grace Kelly on her wedding day.
Vintage poster for the 1968 Grenoble Olympics.
Olympic athletes do not dress this way anymore.