Rites and Rituals

Largest pre-Lent festival in the Dominican Republic.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.

Abandoned limestone cave was once a sacred place of worship.

Hidden in the rain-forests of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India lies the village of Ziro, home to the Apatanis.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

17th-century tradition of public weighing is met with boos or cheers depending on the Mayor's weight.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.