The Most Bizarre and Unusual Festivals Around the Globe

La Tomatina is an annual food fight festival held in the town of Buñol, Spain, where participants throw tomatoes at each other purely for entertainment purposes.

In Lopburi, Thailand, an annual feast is held for the local monkey population, where they are treated to a banquet of fruits, vegetables, and other treats.

Participants in this unusual event chase a wheel of cheese down a steep hill in Gloucestershire, England. The first person to reach the bottom wins the cheese.

During this bizarre festival in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain, men dressed as the devil jump over babies lying on mattresses in the street to cleanse them of evil spirits.

The Boryeong Mud Festival is a yearly event where participants engage in mud-related activities, including mud wrestling, mud slides, and mud baths, to promote the healing properties of Boryeong's mud.

Held in Ivrea, Italy, the Battle of the Oranges is a massive food fight where participants throw oranges at each other to commemorate a historical event.

In this unique competition, male contestants race while carrying their wives or female partners on their backs. The winners receive the wife's weight in beer as a prize.

Oaxaca, Mexico, hosts an annual radish-carving festival, where locals create elaborate sculptures from oversized radishes, displaying them in a vibrant and colorful exhibition.

This week-long festival in the Nevada desert is known for its unique art installations, performances, and self-expression, culminating in the burning of a giant wooden effigy.

Held in Port Lincoln, Australia, Tunarama is a festival that celebrates the tuna fishing industry and features a range of activities, including the famous "tuna toss" competition.

In the small village of Nagoro, Japan, life-sized dolls are created to represent former residents who have moved away or passed on, resulting in a surreal and eerie atmosphere.

This peculiar festival in Nederland, Colorado, celebrates the cryogenically frozen body of a man named Bredo Morstoel, with events like coffin races, costume contests, and frozen turkey bowling.

The World Bodypainting Festival showcases incredible artwork on human canvases, featuring artists from around the world competing in various body painting categories.

In this quirky competition, participants don snorkels and flippers to race through a muddy, water-filled trench in a Welsh peat bog.

Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated in Malaysia, where devotees carry ornate shrines called kavadi and pierce their bodies with hooks and skewers as a form of penance and devotion.