The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

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

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

This mysterious Sardinian festival sees a horde of blank-faced equestrians compete for tin stars.

This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

The highest point in Louisiana, Driskill Mountain at 535 feet above sea level.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.