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

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.

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Week-long festival in the baby food capital of the world.

This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

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

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

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.

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

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?

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

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

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.

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

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.