Places missrabbitmoon Wants to Go

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

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

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

Living towers made of people that are now recognized by UNESCO.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

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

Robotic car thieves, freakish animals and huge neon floats in Northern Ireland's capital.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

Largest pre-Lent festival in the Dominican Republic.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

17th century mosque for Shah Abbas' harem.