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Spectacle

Slinningsbålet: Norway's Record-Breaking Bonfire Tower2025-06-14
Walpurgis Night: How the North Burns Winter on the Last of April2025-04-30
Jokkmokk Winter Market: The Sámi Gathering Above the Arctic Circle2025-02-06
The Krampus Runs: The Alpine Night the Devils Take the Street2024-12-06
Whitby Goth Weekend: The Subculture Pilgrimage2024-10-31
Kubb: The Viking Lawn Game With a World Championship on Gotland2024-08-14
The Roskilde Naked Run: The Festival's Oldest, Barest Tradition2024-07-04
The Hobbyhorse Championships: Finland's Most Earnest Sport2024-06-15
The Battle of the Oranges: Ivrea and the Carnival That Throws 500 Tonnes of Fruit2024-02-13
Up Helly Aa: A Thousand Torches and a Burning Galley2024-01-30
Stonehaven Fireballs: Scotland Swings Fire on Hogmanay2023-12-31
The Air Guitar World Championships: Absurdity With a Peace-and-Love Manifesto2023-08-25
Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship2023-07-22
The World Bodypainting Festival: Skin as the Last Untaxed Canvas2023-07-15
Cheese Rolling at Cooper's Hill: Chasing a Wheel Down a Cliff2023-05-29
Las Fallas: Valencia Builds Giants for a Year, Then Burns Them in a Night2023-03-17
The Gävle Goat: Sweden's Giant Straw Goat and Its Yearly Arson Saga2022-12-11
Ottery St Mary's Tar Barrels: Devon Runs Flaming Casks Through the Crowd2022-11-05
Bog Snorkelling: Wales's Great Peat-Trench World Championship2022-08-28
Mobile Phone Throwing: Finland's Sport of Hurling Your Nokia2022-08-13
Swamp Football World Championships2022-07-30
Beltane Fire Festival: Edinburgh Wakes the Summer on Calton Hill2022-04-30