A closer look
Oymyakon is a remote Russian village that proudly holds the title of the coldest permanently inhabited settlement on earth, where winter temperatures routinely plummet to an utterly horrifying negative seventy degrees Fahrenheit. Visitors who hate themselves enough to travel here quickly discover that simple tasks like wearing glasses become lethal because the metal frames will instantly freeze to their cheekbones and tear off human flesh. The locals leave their car engines running twenty-four hours a day to prevent the mechanics from shattering, and they have to thaw the frozen earth with massive bonfires for several days just to dig a simple grave. It is the perfect vacation destination if your idea of a good time involves extreme frostbite, surviving entirely on a diet of frozen horse meat, and experiencing a climate so violently hostile that spit literally freezes before it hits the ground
