Rites and Rituals

The world’s most primitive form of bungee jumping.

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

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.

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

Marking the ancient boundaries of asylum around Beverley Minster.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

The magic's in the hole!

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

The world's largest Tibetan refugee settlement.