A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

A giant, bloody battle rages throughout the Bolivian Andes each year.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

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

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

A spectacular annual festival centers around humans throwing molten iron against a wall at night.

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

After a long, dark winter in the upper latitudes, Yellowknife knows how to let it all out in unparalleled style.

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

The world's largest gathering of flatbed coupes can be found annually at this rural festival in New South Wales.

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

In this coastal town, the time-honored tradition of reenacting the struggle between the Christians and Moors includes the arrival of the Moorish fleet.

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.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.