Every December, this stretch of dusty desert road transforms into a catwalk for a camel beauty pageant.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

A massive land art sculpture fills a green space once tarnished by a landfill.

One of the few places in Portugal where the Celtic ritual of wearing large wooden masks is still practiced.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

Brawny guys rolling around in oil is the oldest regular sporting event besides the Olympics.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

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

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

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

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

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.

During this Bolivian festival/fair you can wish for wealth, success, love, and more by buying a miniature version of your desire.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

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

This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

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