If you like ice, you have to love the Great Lakes, where it comes in all shapes and sizes. With the recent deep freeze, we're seeing a lot more ice than in the past few winters -- including a frosty Niagara Falls. 鈥婬ere's a look at some unusual shapes and sizes:

Pancake ice forms as sections of ice collide amid the waves, and the edges get raised and rounded, like a pizza. Here's a sample on Lake Michigan from Visit Grand Haven: 

Ice balls begin as a small chunk of ice, and get bigger as waves sculpt them, as this recent MLive video shows. They can even

And there's the ice volcano, shown here in a 2016 video from the shore of Lake Erie (via Wide World of Trains):

But one of our all-time favorites is ice stacking -- basically glass-like pieces that are tossed by waves. Here's a 2016 video from the shore of Lake Superior (via RadiantSpiritGallery):

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