Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

Once a year a small English town gets together to chase oranges down a steep hill in honor of a legendary accident.

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

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

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

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This bizarre English competition answers the important question: how many worms can YOU coax out of the ground?

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

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.

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

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

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."