Festivals

Robotic car thieves, freakish animals and huge neon floats in Northern Ireland's capital.

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

Annual technopop celebration of peace and love.

Honoring the annual National Cherry Festival.

One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

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

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

A wild annual race in Sardinia re-enacts Constantine's victory in Rome.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.