We’re all here for the opening of the most famous – and surely the weirdest – opera festival in the world. For opera lovers ...

OSHU, Iwate Prefecture--One of Japan’s more bizarre festivals with a 1,000-year history that involves near-naked men fighting over a hemp bag of charms was held for the last time on Feb. 17.

Pirates and Vikings don't have an especially huge presence in New Mexico history but they're celebrated big time in Edgewood.

The duck-throwing festival — one of the most bizarre festivals in Spain, or anywhere for that matter — has occurred each August for 97 years in the resort town of Roses in Catalonia.

Named for the cryogenically frozen Grandpa Bredo, who was discovered in his grandson's Tuff Shed in Nederland, this festival is wholly unique, just like Colorado. Although there was a brief period ...