For 16 days, you can enjoy barrels of German beer among the 6 million people who typically don their Bavarian dresses and Liederhosen for Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.
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Over 100,000 people gather in outlandish costumes to participate in Bay to Breakers, a debaucherous city-wide race in San Francisco, California.
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Thailand's wildest Full Moon Party takes place in Koh Pha Ngan every night before or after the full moon. Partiers gather on the beach to drink, dance, and test their fire-jumping skills.
In July, millions gather in the town of Boryeong, South Korea, for 10 days to participate in the Boryeong Mud Festival, a massive mud party.
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A celebration of spring, Holi is a two-day festival throughout India that's celebrated by a massive fight where people throw vibrant-colored flours at each other. The awe-inspiring display has given it the nickname the festival of colors.
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Every August, over 65,000 music and art lovers travel to Nevada's remote Black Rock dessert to enjoy music performances, wild costumes, and massive fire displays at the Burning Man festival.
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The biggest food fight in the world, La Tomatina attracts around 30,000 people to Buñol, Spain, who come to party and hurl tomatoes at each other every August.
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Camp with fellow partiers and enjoy top performances that go from morning to midnight at Coachella, a three-day music festival in Indio, California.
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At Distortion in Copenhagen, Denmark, there are massive street parties during the day, clubs booming with partiers at night, and a two-day rave in the Copenhagen harbor.
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Songkran, Thailand's traditional New Year's Day in April, is the world's biggest water fight. Thousands gather to throw water from buckets, water guns, and hoses.
During Fasnacht, Switzerland's biggest party, all of the lights in the city of Basel go out as groups of paraders fill the streets in costumes. The celebrations continue into the night with drinking and singing.
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The Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-day electronic music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, features music from over 500 of the most popular DJs in the world.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hosts the biggest carnival in the world with stunning costumes and dancers, a massive parade, and tons of street parties.
Originally a student protest for democracy in Novi Sad, Serbia, EXIT is now considered the Best Major European Festival after winning the prize at the Europe Festival Awards.
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With shows in more than 50 cities across America, Foam N' Glow is one of the biggest foam parties in the world. Electronic music is combined with contortionists, stilt walkers, fire performers, and of course, foam.
Every two years, thousands flock to the Concurs de Castell in Tarragona, Spain, to form the tallest and strongest human towers in the world. Some of the human towers go as high as 10 stories.
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Thousands battle for victory in February at Ivrea's 3-day Battle of the Oranges, the biggest food fight in Italy.
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Canada’s Calgary Stampede is a ten-day festival with stage shows, concerts, chuck wagon racing, and one of the largest rodeos in the world.
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The streets of Amsterdam are filled with orange during Koninginnedag, also known as Queen's Day, where over a million people gather in the closed-off city center to party all day and night.
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New Orleans' Mardi Gras is one of the most famous massive parties, with amazing floats, quirky costumes, and parades that go from Sunday to the morning of Fat Tuesday.
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With roughly two million guests and hundreds of concerts spread out over a span of 10 to 11 days, the Montreal Jazz Festival has been named the biggest jazz festival in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Austria's Snowbombing festival in Mayrhofen is a week-long mix of skiing and snowboarding with world-class DJs performing on mountaintop stages.
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St. Patrick's Day in Dublin, Ireland, is an epic four-day celebration, with a giant parade, lots of Guinness, and Irish folk music.
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Since 1970, England's five-day music festival, Glastonbury, has been home to some of the most iconic performers in the world.
Loi Krathong, or the festival of lights, takes place all over Thailand in November, but some of the most stunning displays where millions of lanterns fill the sky are found at Chiang Mai, Ayutthaya, and Sukhothai.
Originally held in Brazil, Rock in Rio is considered the world's biggest music festival and now moves from city to city each year. Last year's event attracted over 700,000 people.
Sydney, Australia, hosts the second-largest New Year's eve celebration with over a million people gathering at the Sydney Harbor Bridge to watch a stunning display of fireworks and light parades.
La Batalla del Vino is an annual huge wine fight in Spain's La Rioja region where participators splash more than 50,000 liters of red wine on one another.
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One of Europe's biggest music festivals, Roskilde in Roskilde, Denmark, provides around 180 different shows for music lovers for four days in July.
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The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the world's largest hot air ballooning event. Crowds gather for nine days around October as hundreds of balloons fly over the Sandia Mountains.
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Held on the last weekend of July in the municipality of Boom, Belgium, Tomorrowland's electronic music festival hosts over 180,000 people, around 100 DJs, and out-of-this-world stage designs.
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