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Sonkajärvi has gained a worldwide name for Wife Carrying which is a sport of carrying women. The first Wife Carrying World Championship dates to 1994, but the creation of the contest, apart from its humorous aspects, has deep roots in the local history. In the late 19th century there was in the area a brigand called Rosvo-Ronkainen, who is said to have accepted i...
Wigwam village #2 was built in 1937 a few miles south of the original wigwam village #1, but on US-31W in Cave City. It was built consisting of 15 wigwams used as guest rooms and a much bigger concrete and steel central structure that originally served as a restaurant. The 15 wigwams are arranged in a semi circle around a common area with playground and recreation are...
Built in 1950 by Arizona motel owner Chester E. Lewis, the plans were based on the original of Frank A. Redford. Lewis first became aware of the distinctive wigwam designs when he was passing through Cave City in 1938. He purchased the rights to Redford's design, as well as the right to use the name "Wigwam Village" in a novel royalty agreement: coin operated radios w...
The 'Gardians and Gardiannes ride the little white horses which have lived here since pre-history; bones of the Solutre horses dating from the Paleolithic period (17,000 years ago) have been found in the area.
Camargue horses (often called the 'horses of the sea') canter, swim, splash, struggle and wrestle their way through absolutely anything. They canter on pavemen...
Wisteria Tunnel is located at the Kawachi Fuji Gardens in Fukuoka Kitakyusyu, Japan (a 12-hour drive from Tokyo). The flowering Japanese wisteria hang overhead and the different colored rows create a spectacular place to walk through.
Wisteria, or wisteria - one of the most beautiful climbing plants, is a large deciduous climber with a hard woody stem. Wisteria flowe...
The World Bodypainting Festival is an annual festival. From 1998 to 2010 the Festival was held in Seeboden, Carinthia, Austria, near the Millstätter See, on the third week of July every year. The new venue is Pörtschach at lake Wörthersee.
The festival lasts a week, of which the first four days consist of over thirty special workshops and lessons run by...
Bog snorkelling is a sporting event that consists of competitors completing two consecutive lengths of a water filled trench cut through a peat bog, in the shortest time possible. Competitors must wear snorkels and flippers, and complete the course without using conventional swimming strokes, relying on flipper power alone. Wet suits are not compulsory, but are usuall...
The World Championship Cardboard Boat Races are held each July in Heber Springs, Arkansas (65 miles north of Little Rock). From rafts to canoes to monster trucks to space shipsyou're gonna see it here. Your gonna try to figure out "How did they do that?"
Races begin at 10 AM on Sandy Beach at Greers Farry Lake. The Captain’s Award will be given to the most crea...
This is one time and place where potty humor is accepted and encouraged – the 33rd annual World Championship Outhouse Races right here in Virginia City. This free event dates back when outdoor plumbing was outlawed and angry residents took to the streets with their outhouses in protest – and the tradition was born.
This hilarious event pits teams of costu...
Pumpkin Chucking, or for rhyming purposes Punkin Chunkin is the sport of hurling or 'chucking' a pumpkin solely by mechanical means for distance. The devices used include slingshots, catapults, centrifugals, trebuchets, and pneumatic cannons.
A pneumatic cannon named 'Big 10 Inch' holds the current world record by firing a pumpkin 5,545.43 feet (1,690.25 m). The ...
The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international clothing-optional bike ride in which participants plan, meet and ride togetheren masseon human-powered transport (the vast majority on bicycles, but some on skateboards and inline skates), to "deliver a vision of a cleaner, safer, body-positive world."
The dress code motto is "bare as you dare".
In 2003, Conrad Schm...
The World of WearableArt (WOW) Award Show is a two-hour performance spectacle held annually in Wellington, New Zealand in September. The show can be difficult to descrive, but not eazy to forget. It's a montage of theater, dance, color, movement and art - a theatrical experience.
Each year the judges select over 150 garments created by designers from all over New Zeal...
World's Biggest Liar is an annual competition for telling lies, held in Cumbria, England. Competitors from around the world have five minutes to tell the biggest and most convincing lie they can. Competition rules bar the use of props or scripts. Politicians and lawyers are not allowed to enter the competition, because "they are judged to be too skilled at tellin...
Mount Hikurangi (or Te Ara ki Hikurangi in Māori) is a 1754 metre (5755 feet) peak in the northeastern corner of New Zealand's North Island, 60 kilometres (37 miles) southwest of East Cape. It is the North Island's highest non-volcanic peak.
The peak is traditionally regarded as the first land in the world to catch the rays of the new day's sun, although this cla...
At an elevation of 4,440m, the tiny post office in the village of Hikkim in northern India’s remote Spiti Valley, connects a cluster of small villages in this isolated region to the rest of the world.
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