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Kawazu cherry trees.
Kawazu, Japan

Kawazu Sakura Festival

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.
Sierra Madre Wistaria Vine.
Sierra Madre, California

Sierra Madre Wistaria Vine

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.
Vilhelmina Ice Pole Sitting Contest.
Vilhelmina, Sweden

Wilhelmina Ice Pole Sitting Contest

Locals perched on icy thrones brave frigid temperatures during this bizarre winter tradition.
Wrapped juanes with plantains, hard-boiled eggs, and olives.
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Juane

Peru’s leaf-wrapped rice ball might be named after John the Baptist’s decapitated head.
Victorian dinner.
Cambridge, Ohio

Dickens Victorian Village

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.
Statues drying in storage.
Kolkata, India

Mud Statues of Kumortuli

The potters' quarter is packed with artists sculpting clay gods with mud from the sacred Ganges river.
View showing precariously narrow base
Stapleford, England

The Hemlock Stone

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.
Bureplatsen.
Sundsvall, Sweden

Bureplatsen

A massive land art sculpture fills a green space once tarnished by a landfill.
Two men at the Takanakuy celebrations, Chumbivilcas, Cuzco, Peru.
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December 25, Day of the Fistfighting Festival

In the Peruvian province of Chumbivilcas, physical conflict is an annual sporting event.
Tom Little December 22, 2017
Two's a party, three's still a party.
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Bhang

To celebrate the Holi festival, many Indians raise a glass of cannabis-infused milk.
Spit cake in progress.
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Lithuanian Spit Cake

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.
Fanesca, alongside a few of its many ingredients.
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Fanesca

A luxurious soup that Ecuador serves up only during Holy Week.
A perfect pie, complete with stars and fish heads.
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Stargazy Pie

A traditional Cornish pie that—ARE THOSE FISH HEADS COMING OUT OF THE TOP?!
A competitor fails to catch a thrown egg without it smashing during an egg throwing discipline of the 2017 World Egg Throwing Championships
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Egg Throwing World Championships

England's annual event features relays, trebuchets, and Russian egg roulette.
Sumalak, also known as samanu, is one of the seven traditional dishes of Nowruz.
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Sumalak

A sweet and simple pudding traditionally made in a joyous, spring ritual.
Symbols of New Orleans carved into the trunk of the tree
New Orleans, Louisiana

The Music Tree

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.
Camels.
Madinat Zayed, United Arab Emirates

Million Street

Every December, this stretch of dusty desert road transforms into a catwalk for a camel beauty pageant.
Poor Neapolitans rush to pillage this Cuccagna, built for the birth of Prince Phillip.
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The Forgotten Italian Tradition of Building Monumental Food Palaces

Then destroying them in a literal hunger games.
Anne Ewbank October 27, 2017