Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

Each year this small English village becomes overrun with outlandish straw men.

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

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

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

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

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

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

This mysterious Sardinian festival sees a horde of blank-faced equestrians compete for tin stars.

This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

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

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

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

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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