Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.

Sample cuisine inspired by the Great Plains indigenous people who have been gathering at this sacred Canadian Heritage Park for 6,000 years.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

Once a year a small English town gets together to chase oranges down a steep hill in honor of a legendary accident.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

Each year this small English village becomes overrun with outlandish straw men.

A headstone notes where the most famous of Robin Hood's legendary Merry Men is reportedly buried.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

This tribute to a beloved cricket umpire is a magnet for risqué pranksters.

In this quiet English suburb, giant steel hands and feet dot the landscape.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

After the band included its number in one of their songs, the box became a monument to the musical group.

In England, an 18th-century water-powered workshop still stands.

This historic factory peddles classic toys from the picturesque English county of Devon.

A wonderful safe haven founded in the 1960s to rescue endangered monkeys from the pet trade.

At this snack-shack in the bucolic British countryside, you can still get a slice of socialism with your spot of tea.