These colorful sawdust illustrations are trampled into non-existence only moments after they are finished.

A nightly tradition fills the streets of Flogsta with a collective scream.

A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.

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

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Week-long festival in the baby food capital of the world.

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

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

Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town.

This bizarre English competition answers the important question: how many worms can YOU coax out of the ground?

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

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

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

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

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

A giant, bloody battle rages throughout the Bolivian Andes each year.

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

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

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

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.