Rites and Rituals

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

Flaming barrels of tar race through these village streets on Bonfire Night, a tradition that dates back centuries.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

Local legend has it that the first humans were created in the pools here, leaving their footprints behind in the rock.

Spirits from these lakes are said to produce the local weather and odd phenomena as they bicker between themselves.