Festivals

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

This Danish park has celebrated the American independence day since 1912.

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

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

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

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.

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

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

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.