Hardwick, New Jersey
Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco
This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.
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Hardwick, New Jersey
This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.
Gary, Indiana
This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.
Sligo, Ireland
A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.
Spanish Town, British Virgin Islands
This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
New York, New York
Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Schrobenhausen, Germany
Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.
High Wycombe, England
17th-century tradition of public weighing is met with boos or cheers depending on the Mayor's weight.
Gävle, Sweden
If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.
Munlochy, Scotland
A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Fremont, Michigan
Week-long festival in the baby food capital of the world.
Ashbourne, England
This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.
Norway
Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.
Castrillo de Murcia, Spain
During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.
Totnes, England
Once a year a small English town gets together to chase oranges down a steep hill in honor of a legendary accident.
Lerwick, Scotland
During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.
Kerry, Ireland
A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.
Willaston, England
This bizarre English competition answers the important question: how many worms can YOU coax out of the ground?