You don’t always see big blocks of ice near the Potomac, especially not in late April. And you almost never see blocks of ice direct from Sweden. The blocks in this picture by hey helen are from the village of Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, taken from the same river used to make the Ice Hotel. The ice sculptures were part of an art exhibition by the Swedish Embassy last week.

And something else about this photo caught our eye – Flickr says it was taken in “Hells Bottom, Washington DC.” That’s a neighborhood name we haven’t heard of, and one that realtors would probably seek to change. A little sleuthing and we found that the area, near the confluence of Rock Creek and the Potomac, was a high crime area in the 1860s, hence the name. And other areas of D.C. had similarly colorful names, like Murder Bay and Bloodfield. Sound like nice places.