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Brawny guys rolling around in oil is the oldest regular sporting event besides the Olympics.

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.

A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

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

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

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

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

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

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

A giant, bloody battle rages throughout the Bolivian Andes each year.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

A spectacular annual festival centers around humans throwing molten iron against a wall at night.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.