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- Abéné Traditional Music FestivalAbéné Traditional Music Festival26 Dec 2026 – 2 Jan 2027
A grassroots New Year's music festival in the Casamance village of Abéné, Senegal, blending traditional Jola rhythms with contemporary West African music.
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Acropolis of AthensOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe rocky citadel above Athens crowned by the Parthenon, completed in 438 BC at the height of classical Greek civilization.
Show me on the map →- Adossa-Gadao (Feast of Knives)Adossa-Gadao (Feast of Knives)13 Mar 2027 – 14 Mar 2027
The Tem people of Sokodé, Togo re-enact their warrior history with a striking ceremonial display of knives and gratitude rites for their ancestors.
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Agbogbo-ZaAgbogbo-ZaThe Ewe people of Notsé, Togo commemorate their 17th-century exodus from a tyrannical king with a historical pageant, war dances and reunion of the Ewe diaspora.
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Agios Ioannis KastriOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA small chapel perched atop a sea rock off Skopelos, Greece, the wedding-scene setting in Mamma Mia! (2008).
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Ahu TongarikiOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest ceremonial platform on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, holding fifteen restored moai statues carved by the Rapa Nui people, most between roughly 1250 and 1500 CE.
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Air Guitar World ChampionshipsAir Guitar World ChampionshipsCompetitors from around the world play invisible guitars with total conviction at this Oulu, Finland championship, held under the motto 'Make Air Not War.'
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Aït BenhaddouOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA fortified Moroccan clay-brick village on an old caravan route, backdrop to Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia and Game of Thrones.
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Akbar's TombOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Mughal emperor Akbar's red sandstone mausoleum at Sikandra, on the outskirts of Agra, India.
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Aké Arts and Book FestivalAké Arts and Book Festival19 Nov 2026 – 21 Nov 2026A major gathering of African writers, poets, filmmakers and musicians in Lagos, celebrating contemporary African literature and creative arts.
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Alasitas FestivalAlasitas Festival24 Jan 2027 – 24 Feb 2027A month-long Aymara/Catholic fusion fair in La Paz where visitors buy miniature goods dedicated to Ekeko, the god of abundance, believed to bring the real item within a year.
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Albuquerque International Balloon FiestaAlbuquerque International Balloon Fiesta3 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 2026The world's largest hot air balloon festival, with over 500 balloons launching over nine days from Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Alcobaça MonasteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Cistercian monastery founded in 1153 by Portugal's first king, its church the largest in the country and among the earliest Gothic buildings on Portuguese soil — famed for the elaborately carved Gothic tombs of King Pedro I and his murdered mistress Inês de Castro.
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AlhambraOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Moorish palace and fortress complex above Granada, built mainly in the 13th and 14th centuries under the Nasrid dynasty.
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Almourol CastleOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Knights Templar stronghold rebuilt from 1171 by Gualdim Pais on a granite islet in the Tagus River, reachable only by a short boat crossing — one of Portugal's most photographed castles.
Show me on the map →- Aloha FestivalsAloha Festivals5 Sept 2026 – 27 Sept 2026
A statewide celebration of Hawaiian culture across the islands, with a royal court investiture, hoʻolauleʻa street festival and floral parade in Waikīkī.
Show me on the map → - Alps Ski SeasonAlps Ski Season1 Dec 2026 – 31 Mar 2027
Snow-reliable skiing across the European Alps.
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AlthorpOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Spencer family's Northamptonshire estate, where Diana, Princess of Wales, is buried on an island in an ornamental lake within the grounds.
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Amazon Rainforest River ToursOPEN YEAR-ROUNDGuided boat and jungle excursions from Manaus, Brazil, into the Amazon rainforest and its river tributaries.
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The Long Island, New York house where Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered six family members in 1974, later the inspiration for The Amityville Horror. Privately owned; the street address was officially changed to deter sightseers.
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Andong Mask Dance FestivalAndong Mask Dance Festival24 Sept 2026 – 4 Oct 2026A celebration of Korea's traditional mask-dance drama (talchum) centered on the UNESCO-listed Hahoe Village near Andong, with performers from Korea and abroad.
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Angel FallsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall, dropping 979m from a Venezuelan tepui so high the water often turns to mist before reaching the ground.
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Angkor WatOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest religious monument in the world, at the heart of Cambodia's sprawling Angkor temple complex.
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AnıtkabirOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe monumental mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic, overlooking Ankara from a hilltop.
Show me on the map →- Antarctic Ice MarathonAntarctic Ice Marathon13 Dec 2026
The world's southernmost marathon, run on snow and ice near Union Glacier, Antarctica, in temperatures that can drop below -20°C.
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Antarctica Cup Yacht RaceOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA standing solo-circumnavigation record challenge starting and ending at Albany, Western Australia — sailors can set off to attempt it whenever they're ready, rather than at one scheduled annual race date.
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Antonine BathsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest set of Roman baths ever built in Africa, and among the largest in the Roman world — monumental ruins in Carthage, Tunisia, part of the city's UNESCO World Heritage site.
Show me on the map →- Arctic Circle RaceArctic Circle Race2 Apr 2027 – 4 Apr 2027
A grueling multi-day cross-country ski race near Sisimiut, Greenland, considered one of the toughest ski races in the world, drawing international and local athletes across the Arctic wilderness.
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Area 51OPEN YEAR-ROUNDA secretive US Air Force testing facility in the Nevada desert, the subject of decades of UFO conspiracy theories — the perimeter can be viewed (from a legal distance) along the Extraterrestrial Highway.
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Argungu Fishing FestivalArgungu Fishing Festival25 Feb 2027 – 28 Feb 2027Tens of thousands of fishermen wade into the Matan Fada River at Argungu, Nigeria to catch the largest fish bare-handed, alongside traditional wrestling and boxing.
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Atka B-24D LiberatorOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA US bomber deliberately crash-landed on Atka Island, Alaska in 1942 after being unable to reach any airfield in poor weather — a designated National Historic Landmark, largely intact where it came to rest.
Show me on the map →- Atlantic Hurricane SeasonAtlantic Hurricane Season1 Jun 2026 – 30 Nov 2026
Tropical storms and hurricanes form across the Caribbean, Gulf and US East Coast.
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Auschwitz-BirkenauOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp of World War II, near Oświęcim, Poland, where more than 1.1 million people were murdered. Preserved as a memorial and museum, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Austin City Limits FestivalAustin City Limits Festival2 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 2026A two-weekend music festival in Austin, Texas's Zilker Park, spun off from the long-running PBS concert series of the same name.
Show me on the map →- Australian Bushfire SeasonAustralian Bushfire Season1 Nov 2026 – 28 Feb 2027
Elevated bushfire risk across much of Australia during the southern summer.
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Avenue of BaobabsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA dirt road near Morondava, Madagascar, lined with centuries-old baobab trees rising like giant stone pillars from the red earth.
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Awhum Cave and WaterfallOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA waterfall in Enugu State, Nigeria, that plunges through the roof of a cave revered as a pilgrimage site.
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B-29 Superfortress (Lake Mead)OPEN YEAR-ROUNDA WWII-era bomber that crash-landed into Lake Mead during a 1948 test flight — the entire crew survived, and the remarkably intact wreck now sits 55m underwater, a technical-diving destination.
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Badab-e SurtOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA stepped travertine terrace system in northern Iran, built by two adjacent mineral springs into a staircase of red-and-cream pools.
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BagelFestBagelFest15 Nov 2026An annual bagel-industry tasting festival at Citi Field, Queens, with 50+ vendors and the World Bagel Rolling Championship.
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Baikonur CosmodromeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's oldest and largest operational space launch facility, leased by Russia in the remote Kazakh steppe — the site of Sputnik's 1957 launch and every Soviet crewed spaceflight since.
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Bali Arts FestivalBali Arts Festival13 Jun 2027 – 11 Jul 2027A month-long, free celebration of Balinese dance, music, theatre and crafts at Denpasar's Taman Werdhi Budaya Art Centre, held annually since 1979.
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Baliem Valley FestivalBaliem Valley Festival6 Aug 2027 – 8 Aug 2027Indigenous Dani, Lani and Yali tribes gather near Wamena for a three-day showcase of traditional mock tribal warfare, archery and dance in Papua's highlands.
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Balmoral CastleOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe British royal family's Scottish Highlands estate, standing in for itself in the Netflix series The Crown. Grounds and exhibitions are open to visitors in summer; the working estate is otherwise private.
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Lahore, Pakistan's spring kite-flying festival, reviving a centuries-old tradition after a 20-year ban — rooftops and skies across the city fill with color as the festival returns each February under new safety regulations.
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Basilica CisternOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA vast 6th-century underground Byzantine cistern beneath Istanbul, held up by 336 marble columns, including two carved with Medusa heads.
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Battle of the OrangesBattle of the Oranges6 Feb 2027 – 9 Feb 2027Historic carnival battle — thousands throw oranges in mock combat.
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Beale Street Music FestivalBeale Street Music Festival7 May 2027 – 9 May 2027The opening weekend of Memphis in May, a riverside music festival at Tom Lee Park spanning blues, rock, hip-hop and soul across multiple stages.
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Bellagio FountainsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe choreographed fountains outside Las Vegas's Bellagio hotel, the setting for the closing scene of Ocean's Eleven (2001) and featured in The Hangover (2009) and Casino (1995).
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Benagil CaveOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA sea cave on Portugal's Algarve coast with a domed roof opening to the sky and a sand beach only reachable by boat or kayak.
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Bengtson's Pumpkin FarmBengtson's Pumpkin Farm4 Sept 2026 – 8 Nov 2026A seasonal fall theme park in Homer Glen, Illinois, with pumpkin picking, hayrides and a haunted-house circuit through late autumn.
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Beverly Wilshire HotelOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Beverly Hills hotel that served as the primary setting for Pretty Woman (1990).
Show me on the map →- Bilbao BBK LiveBilbao BBK Live8 Jul 2027 – 10 Jul 2027
A three-day music festival on Mount Kobetamendi overlooking Bilbao, pairing an international rock and electronic lineup with sweeping views over the Basque city.
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A US B-17 Flying Fortress that ditched in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea during WWII, now a shallow, coral-encrusted wreck dive near where it went down.
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Blackpool IlluminationsBlackpool Illuminations4 Sept 2026 – 4 Jan 2027Britain's original and largest light festival, illuminating six miles of Blackpool's seafront promenade every autumn since 1879.
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Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra)OPEN YEAR-ROUNDA sea cave on Capri, Italy, where sunlight refracted through an underwater cavity bathes the water in an electric blue glow.
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Bob Marley MausoleumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDBob Marley's birthplace and final resting place in Nine Mile, Jamaica, run as a heritage site by his family.
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Bolas de Fuego (Fireball Festival)Bolas de Fuego (Fireball Festival)31 Aug 2027Residents of Nejapa, El Salvador don skull masks and hurl flaming rag balls at each other in the streets, commemorating a 1658 volcanic eruption and the town's patron saint — a century-old tradition with no shortage of scorched eyebrows.
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Bolshoi TheatreOPEN YEAR-ROUNDMoscow's historic home of ballet and opera, its neoclassical facade one of the most recognizable in Russia.
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A cultural center in Langata, Nairobi with daily live performances of traditional music and dance from over 40 Kenyan ethnic groups, alongside scaled reconstructions of their traditional homesteads.
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Bonfire NightBonfire Night5 Nov 2026Fireworks and bonfires across Britain marking the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, with major displays in London parks and across the country.
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Bonnie and Clyde Ambush SiteOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA rural stretch of Louisiana Highway 154 south of Gibsland where law enforcement ambushed and killed Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow on 23 May 1934, now marked with historical monuments.
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Boryeong Mud FestivalBoryeong Mud Festival24 Jul 2027 – 9 Aug 2027South Korea's famous mineral-mud beach festival at Daecheon Beach, with mud pools, slides and wrestling rings alongside concerts.
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Boston MarathonBoston Marathon19 Apr 2027One of the world's oldest and most prestigious annual marathons.
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BottleRock Napa ValleyBottleRock Napa Valley28 May 2027 – 30 May 2027A Memorial Day weekend music, wine and culinary festival at the Napa Valley Expo, pairing major touring acts with California wine and food.
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Boun Bang Fai (Rocket Festival)Boun Bang Fai (Rocket Festival)9 May 2027 – 11 May 2027Villagers build and launch huge homemade bamboo rockets skyward around Vientiane to encourage rain before rice-planting season.
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Boxing Day TestBoxing Day Test26 Dec 2026 – 30 Dec 2026The Melbourne Cricket Ground hosts Test cricket's biggest annual date on the calendar, played every Boxing Day.
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The most famous of Scotland's Highland Games, traditionally attended by the reigning monarch, with caber tossing, piping and hammer throwing.
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Bran CastleOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Transylvanian clifftop castle marketed as the home of Dracula, drawing on Bram Stoker's novel.
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Broadway Theater DistrictOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe cluster of Manhattan theatres around Times Square staging the world's best-known commercial live productions.
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Bua Tong Sticky WaterfallsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA limestone-and-mineral waterfall near Chiang Mai, Thailand, whose calcified rock is textured enough to climb barefoot straight up the cascade.
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Buckingham PalaceOPEN YEAR-ROUNDOfficial London residence of the British monarch, with the Changing of the Guard performed regularly outside.
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Burj KhalifaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's tallest building, its observation decks giving views over Dubai and out to the Gulf.
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Burning ManBurning ManTemporary desert city built around art, radical self-expression and fire.
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Burns NightBurns Night25 Jan 2027Scotland-wide suppers honoring poet Robert Burns, with haggis, whisky and recitations of his verse on the anniversary of his birth.
Show me on the map →- Busan International Film FestivalBusan International Film Festival6 Oct 2026 – 15 Oct 2026
Asia's leading film festival, screening hundreds of films from around the world across venues in Busan, South Korea.
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BusójárásBusójárás4 Feb 2027 – 9 Feb 2027Locals in Mohács, Hungary don heavy wool fleece and grotesque horned wooden masks, banging drums and rattles through the streets to chase away winter — a UNESCO-listed tradition.
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Bwindi Gorilla TrekkingOPEN YEAR-ROUNDPermit-only guided treks through Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to spot mountain gorilla families.
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C-130 Hercules (Aqaba)OPEN YEAR-ROUNDA retired Royal Jordanian Air Force transport plane deliberately sunk off Aqaba in 2017 to create an artificial reef and wreck dive in the Red Sea.
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Caesars PalaceOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Las Vegas Strip casino resort that has appeared in countless films, including Rain Man (1988), Ocean's Eleven (2001) and The Hangover (2009).
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Café des Deux MoulinsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA still-operating Montmartre café in Paris where Amélie (2001) worked as a waitress — much of the film was shot here.
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Calabar CarnivalCalabar Carnival1 Dec 2026 – 31 Dec 2026Africa's largest street party, filling Nigeria's Cross River State with tribal costumes, dancing floats, music and boat regattas throughout December.
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One of Africa's largest waterfalls by volume, a 105m-wide curtain of water in Malanje Province, Angola.
Show me on the map → - Calgary ExpoCalgary Expo22 Apr 2027 – 25 Apr 2027
Western Canada's largest comics and entertainment expo, held at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta.
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Calgary StampedeCalgary Stampede9 Jul 2027 – 18 Jul 2027'The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth' — rodeo, chuckwagon racing and a Western festival in Alberta.
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Camp BestivalCamp Bestival29 Jul 2027 – 1 Aug 2027A family-friendly music and camping festival in the grounds of Lulworth Castle, Dorset.
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Candlelight Concerts SeattleOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA touring series of string-ensemble tribute concerts performed by candlelight in Seattle venues, from film scores to Adele and Taylor Swift.
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Cannes Film FestivalCannes Film Festival11 May 2027 – 22 May 2027The world's most prestigious film festival on the French Riviera.
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Cannes Film FestivalCannes Film Festival11 May 2027 – 22 May 2027The world's most prestigious film festival, drawing global stars and premiering top international cinema on the French Riviera each May.
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Caño CristalesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Colombian river nicknamed the 'Liquid Rainbow', its riverbed plants blooming red, yellow, green and blue for a few weeks each year.
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Cape Town International Jazz FestivalCape Town International Jazz Festival26 Mar 2027 – 27 Mar 2027'Africa's Grandest Gathering' — one of the continent's largest jazz festivals.
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Cappadocia Balloon FestivalCappadocia Balloon Festival30 Jul 2027 – 2 Aug 2027Around 200 hot air balloons fill the skies over Cappadocia's fairy-chimney valleys near Göreme, with evening light shows at Paşabağ.
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Capuchin Catacombs of PalermoOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Sicilian monastery crypt lined with thousands of mummified and skeletal remains, dressed in their era's clothing, dating from the 16th to early 20th century.
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Wales's largest road race, looping through Cardiff's castle, bay and civic landmarks.
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Carnaval de BarranquillaCarnaval de Barranquilla13 Feb 2027 – 16 Feb 2027A UNESCO-recognized carnival blending Indigenous, African and Spanish traditions in Colombia.
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Carrie Bradshaw's ApartmentOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe 66 Perry Street townhouse in New York's West Village whose stoop served as the exterior of Carrie Bradshaw's apartment in Sex and the City (1998–2004) — still a private residence.
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Casa di Riposo per MusicistiOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Milan retirement home for musicians founded by Giuseppe Verdi in 1896; he and his wife are buried in its crypt.
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Castel Sant'AngeloOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA cylindrical fortress on the Tiber in Rome, originally built as Emperor Hadrian's mausoleum in 139 CE before later serving as a papal fortress and prison.
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Castelo de ÓbidosOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe walled hilltop castle-town north of Lisbon, taken from the Moors in 1148 and later given as a wedding gift by King Denis to Queen Isabella — a tradition that made Óbidos the 'Town of Queens' for centuries after.
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Castelo de São JorgeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe hilltop citadel overlooking Lisbon's old town, held by Moorish rulers before falling to Christian forces in the 1147 Siege of Lisbon — later rebuilt as a royal residence, its walls eventually studded with 77 defensive towers.
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Castle of the MoorsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDAn 8th–9th-century Moorish hilltop fortress above Sintra, its battlements zigzagging along the ridgeline with sweeping views to the Atlantic — surrendered peacefully after the 1147 fall of Lisbon, and now part of the UNESCO-listed Cultural Landscape of Sintra.
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Catacombs of Kom el ShoqafaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA 2nd-century Roman-era necropolis cut into the rock beneath Alexandria, Egypt, blending Egyptian, Greek and Roman funerary styles across three underground levels.
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Catacombs of ParisOPEN YEAR-ROUNDKilometres of former quarry tunnels beneath Paris lined with the bones of six million people.
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Catacombs of San CallistoOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest of Rome's Christian catacombs, four levels deep along the Appian Way, with tunnels stretching some 16 kilometres.
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Catatumbo LightningOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe mouth of the Catatumbo River where it meets Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela — the place on Earth with the highest lightning-strike frequency, flashing on 140–160 nights a year.
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Cave of AltamiraOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Cantabrian cave whose ochre bison paintings, roughly 14,000–20,000 years old, were among the first Paleolithic art ever recognized as genuine.
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Glasgow's annual folk, roots and world music festival, Britain's premier celebration of Celtic music with concerts, ceilidhs and workshops.
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Cesária Évora MuseumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA museum in a neoclassical colonial-era building in Mindelo, Cape Verde, dedicated to the barefoot diva of morna music, Cesária Évora.
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Chairman Mao Memorial HallOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA mausoleum at the centre of Beijing's Tiananmen Square holding the embalmed body of Mao Zedong, on public display in a crystal sarcophagus.
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Chalk Cliffs of RügenOPEN YEAR-ROUNDSheer white chalk cliffs on Germany's Rügen island, immortalized in Caspar David Friedrich's 1818 Romantic painting of the same view.
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Charles BridgeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDPrague's 14th-century stone bridge across the Vltava River, lined with baroque statues and featured in Mission: Impossible (1996).
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Château de ChambordOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest château in the Loire Valley, built 1519–1547 as a hunting lodge for King Francis I — famous for its double-helix staircase, whose two spirals never meet, long attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
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Château de ChenonceauOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Renaissance château built 1514–1522 arching gracefully across the River Cher on a series of stone piers — shaped over the centuries by the rival tastes of Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de' Medici, who each left their mark on its gardens and galleries.
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Cheese RollingCheese Rolling31 May 2027Competitors chase a wheel of cheese down a near-vertical hill.
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Cheile TurziiOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA limestone gorge in Transylvania, Romania, its sheer walls a popular via ferrata and rock-climbing destination.
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Cheltenham FestivalCheltenham Festival16 Mar 2027 – 19 Mar 2027National Hunt horse racing's showpiece week at Cheltenham Racecourse, culminating in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
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Guided day tours into the abandoned city of Pripyat and the 1986 disaster site, permitted only with a licensed operator.
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Cherry Blossom Peak BloomCherry Blossom Peak Bloom25 Mar 2027 – 10 Apr 2027Peak sakura bloom across Kyoto's parks, temples and riversides.
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Cheung Chau Bun FestivalCheung Chau Bun Festival12 May 2027 – 13 May 2027Competitors scramble up a 60-foot tower covered in sweet buns on the Hong Kong island of Cheung Chau, racing to grab as many lucky buns as possible before time runs out.
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj TerminusOPEN YEAR-ROUNDMumbai's Victorian Gothic railway terminus, the setting for the closing 'Jai Ho' dance sequence in Slumdog Millionaire (2008).
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Chicago Jazz FestivalChicago Jazz FestivalA free Labor Day weekend jazz festival in Chicago's Millennium Park, running since 1974.
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Chicago MarathonChicago Marathon11 Oct 2026One of the World Marathon Majors, a flat, fast 26.2-mile course looping through 29 Chicago neighborhoods from Grant Park.
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Chicago St. Patrick's Day ParadeChicago St. Patrick's Day Parade13 Mar 2027Chicago's downtown St. Patrick's Day parade, held the same day the Chicago River is famously dyed green for the occasion.
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Chichen ItzaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Maya city in Mexico's Yucatán whose stepped pyramid, El Castillo, was built between the 8th and 12th centuries.
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Chinese New Year (London)Chinese New Year (London)6 Feb 2027One of the largest Chinese New Year celebrations outside Asia, filling London's Chinatown and Trafalgar Square with a parade and lion dances.
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Chinese New Year (Spring Festival)Chinese New Year (Spring Festival)6 Feb 2027China's biggest holiday, marked nationwide with family reunion feasts, red lanterns, lion dances and fireworks as the new lunar year begins.
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One of Savannah, Georgia's historic squares, where Forrest Gump's park-bench scenes were filmed (the bench itself was a prop, since removed).
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Over a thousand near-identical grass-covered limestone mounds across Bohol, Philippines, that turn chocolate-brown in the dry season.
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Christ Church CollegeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDAn Oxford University college whose staircase and cloisters were filmed for the Harry Potter films, and whose dining hall inspired Hogwarts' Great Hall.
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Christ the RedeemerOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Art Deco statue crowning Corcovado Mountain, watching over Rio de Janeiro.
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The Rockettes' annual holiday stage show at Radio City Music Hall, New York — precision kickline routines running since 1933.
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Church of Saint George, LalibelaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDOne of eleven monolithic churches carved downward into solid volcanic rock in Lalibela, Ethiopia, in the 12th–13th century — cut in the shape of a Greek cross.
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A Micronesian lagoon holding dozens of Japanese WWII ships and aircraft sunk in a single 1944 US air raid, now among the world's greatest wreck-diving destinations.
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Cimitero di San MicheleOPEN YEAR-ROUNDVenice's cemetery island, where composer Igor Stravinsky is buried in the Orthodox section near his friend and collaborator Sergei Diaghilev, per Stravinsky's own wish.
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A marathon weekend through Cincinnati, Ohio, known for its pig-themed mascots and one of the country's most spectator-friendly race atmospheres.
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City of Lubbock CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDBuddy Holly's hometown cemetery in Lubbock, Texas, where he is buried beneath a guitar-decorated gravestone.
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Ireland's dramatic Atlantic-facing sea cliffs, rising 214m above the waves along the County Clare coast.
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CoachellaCoachella16 Apr 2027 – 18 Apr 2027Major music and arts festival in the California desert.
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ColosseumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDRome's great amphitheatre, completed around 80 CE and once host to gladiatorial contests for up to 50,000 spectators.
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Colosseum & Ancient Rome Underground TourOPEN YEAR-ROUNDGuided access to the Colosseum's underground chambers, arena floor and the Roman Forum beyond, closed to general admission tickets.
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Columbine High SchoolOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Littleton, Colorado high school where 13 people were murdered in a mass shooting on 20 April 1999. A memorial to the victims stands in nearby Clement Park; the school itself remains an active, operating campus.
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Corfu Pot Smashing (Holy Saturday)Corfu Pot Smashing (Holy Saturday)1 May 2027At noon on Holy Saturday, Corfu Town residents throw clay pots from their windows to shatter on the streets below, re-enacting a biblical earthquake at the moment of Christ's resurrection.
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Cradle of HumankindOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA UNESCO World Heritage cave system northwest of Johannesburg where fossil discoveries — including 'Little Foot' and 'Mrs. Ples' — have yielded some of the richest hominid fossil records on Earth.
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Crater LakeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe deepest lake in the United States, filling the caldera of a collapsed volcano in Oregon with famously vivid blue water.
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A massive electronic dance music festival in Daresbury, Warrington, with top DJs across multiple outdoor stages.
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Creux du VanOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA natural rock amphitheatre in the Swiss Jura mountains, its 1.4km curved cliff often called the 'Grand Canyon of Switzerland'.
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CruftsCrufts4 Mar 2027 – 7 Mar 2027The world's largest dog show, held at Birmingham's NEC, with breed judging and agility competitions.
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Curia of PompeyOPEN YEAR-ROUNDRuins within Rome's Largo di Torre Argentina where Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC. A raised walkway to the exact spot opened to visitors in 2023.
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Dachau Concentration Camp MemorialOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe first Nazi concentration camp, opened in 1933 near Munich, Germany, and used as a model for the camp system that followed. Preserved as a memorial site open to visitors.
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Dak'Art BiennaleDak'Art Biennale19 Nov 2026 – 19 Dec 2026Africa's leading contemporary art biennial, exhibiting work from across the continent and its diaspora throughout Dakar, Senegal.
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Dakar RallyDakar Rally3 Jan 2027 – 17 Jan 2027A grueling off-road endurance rally for cars, bikes and trucks across the Saudi Arabian desert.
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One of the hottest, lowest and most alien landscapes on Earth, an Ethiopian sulfur basin of acid pools and salt formations over 100m below sea level.
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Darvaza Gas CraterOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe 'Gates of Hell' — a 70-metre natural gas crater in the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan, burning continuously since a 1971 drilling accident.
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Dasht-e LutOPEN YEAR-ROUNDOne of the hottest places ever recorded on Earth's surface, an Iranian desert of towering wind-carved yardang ridges.
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Daytona 500Daytona 50021 Feb 2027NASCAR's biggest race of the year, the season-opening 500-mile superspeedway race at Daytona International Speedway, Florida.
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The lowest point on Earth's land surface, a hypersaline lake between Israel, Jordan and the West Bank so dense that swimmers float without effort.
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Devils GardenOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest concentration of natural stone arches in Arches National Park, Utah, including the iconic Landscape Arch.
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Día de los MuertosDía de los Muertos1 Nov 2026 – 2 Nov 2026Vibrant celebration honoring loved ones with altars, marigolds and parades.
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Diablos Danzantes de Corpus Christi (Yare)Diablos Danzantes de Corpus Christi (Yare)4 Jun 2027A 400-year-old UNESCO-recognized masked "dancing devils" procession in San Francisco de Yare dramatizing the triumph of good over evil.
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Diafarabé Cattle CrossingDiafarabé Cattle Crossing5 Dec 2026 – 7 Dec 2026Fulani herders in traditional dress drive tens of thousands of cattle across the Niger River at Diafarabé, Mali, marking the seasonal return from grazing lands — the exact date is announced locally only shortly beforehand.
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Disney's Animal KingdomOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Walt Disney World park built around a real savanna safari and the Tree of Life, home to Pandora — The World of Avatar.
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Disney's Hollywood StudiosOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA film-and-TV-themed Walt Disney World park, home to Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and the Tower of Terror.
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Disneyland ParisOPEN YEAR-ROUNDEurope's Disney resort in Marne-la-Vallée, its castle — Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant — visible from the TGV line into Paris.
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Disneyland Park, AnaheimOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe original Disney park, opened in 1955 — Sleeping Beauty Castle and the template every theme park since has borrowed from.
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Distillery DistrictOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA preserved Victorian industrial district in Toronto, built around the former Gooderham & Worts distillery, used as a filming location for the X-Men film series.
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DiwaliDiwali8 Nov 2026Festival of Lights celebrated with lamps, fireworks and sweets across India.
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Diwali MotorcadeDiwali Motorcade8 Nov 2026A grand parade of illuminated floats celebrating the Hindu Festival of Lights in Georgetown, reflecting Guyana's large Indo-Guyanese population.
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Dome of the RockOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe gold-domed Islamic shrine on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, completed in 691 CE over the rock from which Muhammad is traditionally said to have ascended to heaven.
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Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu)Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu)9 Jun 2027Dragon boat races and bamboo-wrapped rice dumplings (zongzi) honor the ancient poet Qu Yuan, marked nationwide but rooted in Miluo, Hunan, where he drowned himself in protest.
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Dubai Shopping FestivalDubai Shopping Festival5 Dec 2026 – 18 Jan 2027A month-long citywide festival of retail deals, fireworks and live entertainment across Dubai.
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Dubrovnik Old TownOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe walled medieval city on Croatia's Adriatic coast, instantly recognizable as King's Landing from Game of Thrones.
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Durga PujaDurga Puja16 Oct 2026 – 21 Oct 2026Kolkata's biggest festival, celebrating the goddess Durga's victory over evil — elaborate, artistically themed pandals fill the city for five days, culminating in the immersion of her idols in the Hooghly River.
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Typhoons regularly track across the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.
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East Side GalleryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall, covered in murals painted by international artists after it fell in 1989.
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EDC KoreaEDC Korea3 Oct 2026 – 4 Oct 2026The Korean edition of Electric Daisy Carnival, two nights of neon stages, pyrotechnics and international DJs in Incheon.
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Edinburgh Festival FringeEdinburgh Festival FringeThe world's largest arts festival, taking over venues across Edinburgh with thousands of comedy, theatre and performance shows every August.
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Edinburgh Fringe FestivalEdinburgh Fringe FestivalThe world's largest arts festival — thousands of performances across the city.
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Edinburgh Vaults Ghost TourOPEN YEAR-ROUNDGuided tours into the sealed South Bridge Vaults, once slum housing and now Edinburgh's best-known haunted-history walk.
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EftelingOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Dutch fairytale-themed park built around the Fairytale Forest, one of the oldest and most story-driven theme parks in the world.
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Eiffel TowerOPEN YEAR-ROUNDGustave Eiffel's 1889 wrought-iron tower, built for the World's Fair and initially derided by Paris's artistic establishment.
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A Spanish brigantine that vanished in the Gulf of Mexico in 1784 carrying a fortune in silver coin — discovered by a fishing trawler in 1993, which hauled up thousands of pesos in its nets.
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El Celler de Can RocaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Roca brothers' three-Michelin-star restaurant in Girona, blending avant-garde technique with Catalan roots.
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El ColachoEl Colacho17 Jun 2027 – 20 Jun 2027Men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies born that year in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain, a tradition running since the 1620s meant to absolve the infants of sin.
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El Jem AmphitheatreOPEN YEAR-ROUNDOften called the Colosseum of Tunisia, this exceptionally well-preserved 3rd-century Roman amphitheatre once held 35,000 spectators for gladiatorial games.
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Electric Daisy Carnival Las VegasElectric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas14 May 2027 – 23 May 2027The largest electronic dance music festival in North America, held overnight at Las Vegas Motor Speedway across two weekends.
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Ely CathedralOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Cambridgeshire cathedral whose interiors stood in for Westminster Abbey in The King's Speech (2010).
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EPCOTOPEN YEAR-ROUNDWalt Disney World's park of world culture and innovation, built around the geodesic Spaceship Earth and a lagoon ringed by country pavilions.
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Epsom Derby FestivalEpsom Derby Festival4 Jun 2027 – 5 Jun 2027British flat racing's most prestigious event, run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey since 1780.
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Ernest Hemingway's GraveOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA simple flat gravestone in Ketchum Cemetery, Idaho, marking Ernest Hemingway's grave; visitors traditionally leave coins and liquor bottles.
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Esala PeraheraEsala PeraheraOne of Asia's oldest continuously observed festivals — a 10-night procession of caparisoned elephants honoring the Buddha's Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy.
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Germany's largest theme park, its lands themed around different European countries.
Show me on the map → - EvalaEvala14 Jul 2027 – 20 Jul 2027
A traditional wrestling rite of passage for young Kabye men in Togo's Kara region, with matches, songs and community gatherings marking their transition to adulthood.
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F1 Abu Dhabi Grand PrixF1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix6 Dec 2026Formula 1 World Championship season finale under floodlights.
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F1 Australian Grand PrixF1 Australian Grand Prix28 Feb 2027Formula 1 World Championship round at Albert Park, on a temporary circuit around Melbourne's lakeside park.
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F1 Austrian Grand PrixF1 Austrian Grand Prix27 Jun 2027Formula 1 World Championship round at the Red Bull Ring, tucked into the Styrian mountains.
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F1 Azerbaijan Grand PrixF1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix12 Sept 2027Formula 1 World Championship round on the Baku City Circuit, combining Formula 1's longest straight with a tight medieval old-town section.
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F1 Bahrain Grand PrixF1 Bahrain Grand Prix14 Mar 2027Formula 1's traditional season-opening night race at the Bahrain International Circuit.
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Formula 1 World Championship round at Spa-Francorchamps, drivers' favourite circuit for its length, elevation change and the Eau Rouge corner.
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F1 British Grand PrixF1 British Grand Prix4 Jul 2027Formula 1 World Championship round at Silverstone, the home of British motorsport.
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F1 Canadian Grand PrixF1 Canadian Grand Prix20 Jun 2027Formula 1 World Championship round at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, on Montreal's Île Notre-Dame.
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F1 Chinese Grand PrixF1 Chinese Grand Prix21 Mar 2027Formula 1 World Championship round at the Shanghai International Circuit, its layout inspired by the Chinese character for 'upper'.
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F1 Dutch Grand PrixF1 Dutch Grand Prix29 Aug 2027Formula 1 World Championship round at Zandvoort's dunes-lined circuit, home of the famously banked final corner.
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F1 Hungarian Grand PrixF1 Hungarian Grand Prix1 Aug 2027Formula 1 World Championship round at the tight, twisting Hungaroring outside Budapest.
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F1 Italian Grand PrixF1 Italian Grand PrixFormula 1 World Championship round at the historic Monza circuit.
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Formula 1 World Championship round at Suzuka, one of the sport's few figure-eight circuits and a fan favourite for its flowing 'S' curves.
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Formula 1 night race on the Las Vegas Strip.
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F1 Mexico City Grand PrixF1 Mexico City Grand Prix31 Oct 2027Formula 1 World Championship round at the high-altitude Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, its stadium section packed through the old baseball arena.
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Formula 1 World Championship round on a temporary circuit built around Hard Rock Stadium.
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F1 Monaco Grand PrixF1 Monaco Grand Prix23 May 2027The most glamorous race on the calendar, through the streets of Monaco.
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Formula 1 World Championship round on the Losail International Circuit, floodlit for a night race in the desert.
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F1 São Paulo Grand PrixF1 São Paulo Grand Prix14 Nov 2027Formula 1 World Championship round at Interlagos, famous for unpredictable weather and dramatic championship deciders.
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F1 Saudi Arabian Grand PrixF1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix25 Apr 2027Formula 1's fastest street circuit, run along Jeddah's Corniche waterfront under floodlights.
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F1 Singapore Grand PrixF1 Singapore Grand Prix20 Sept 2026Formula 1's original night race, run on a street circuit through Marina Bay.
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F1 Spanish Grand PrixF1 Spanish Grand Prix6 Jun 2027Formula 1's Spanish round at the new Madrid circuit, which took over from the long-serving Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya from 2026.
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F1 United States Grand PrixF1 United States Grand Prix24 Oct 2027Formula 1 World Championship round at the Circuit of the Americas outside Austin, its Turn 1 climb inspired by Silverstone's Maggotts-Becketts.
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Falaises d'ÉtretatOPEN YEAR-ROUNDChalk cliffs and natural arches on France's Normandy coast, painted repeatedly by Monet and Courbet.
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The largest pop-culture convention in Canada, filling Toronto's Metro Toronto Convention Centre with comics, gaming, film and celebrity programming.
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Saint-Louis, Senegal's New Year lantern procession, with elaborately built illuminated model 'fanaux' — a Franco-Senegalese tradition dating to the colonial era.
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Fantasy FestFantasy Fest16 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026Key West, Florida's costumed adults-only Halloween festival, ten days of parades, body-paint artistry and street parties along Duval Street.
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Fårö RauksOPEN YEAR-ROUNDTowering limestone sea stacks ('rauks') scattered along the coast of Fårö, the small Swedish island off Gotland where Ingmar Bergman lived and filmed.
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Feria de AbrilFeria de Abril13 Apr 2027 – 18 Apr 2027Seville's week-long spring fair, filling a fairground of hundreds of striped casetas (party tents) with flamenco dancing, horse-drawn carriage parades and dancing until dawn.
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Medellín's iconic flower festival, culminating in the Desfile de Silleteros parade of flower growers carrying huge floral arrangements on their backs.
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Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos AiresFeria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires23 Apr 2027 – 11 May 2027One of the world's largest Spanish-language book fairs, hosting international authors and publishers at Buenos Aires's La Rural exhibition grounds for three weeks.
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Ferncliff CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA cemetery and mausoleum in Hartsdale, New York, where singer and actor Paul Robeson is interred.
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Festival FFestival FA cultural and artistic festival filling Faro's historic Vila Adentro with Portuguese music, cinema, comedy, crafts and street food across multiple outdoor stages.
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A medieval reenactment festival in the small Quebec municipality of Montpellier, near Saint-André-Avellin, with jousting, artisans and period encampments.
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Festival Nacional de Folklore de CosquínFestival Nacional de Folklore de Cosquín24 Jan 2027 – 1 Feb 2027Argentina's premier national folk music festival, drawing top folklore and dance acts to an open-air stage in the Punilla Valley.
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On Shrove Tuesday, the Mexican town of San Juan de la Vega re-enacts the legend of a 17th-century local Robin Hood figure by hurling firecracker-rigged hammers at each other — one of the world's more dangerous folk festivals.
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West Africa's leading arts festival, held on the banks of the Niger River in Ségou, Mali, with major regional musicians, traditional dance, giant puppetry and craft exhibitions.
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Festival SilhouetteFestival SilhouetteA free open-air short-film and music festival under the trees of Paris's Parc de la Butte-du-Chapeau-Rouge, pairing international short-film screenings with live indie concerts.
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Festival y Mundial de TangoFestival y Mundial de TangoA free, city-wide celebration and world championship of tango, with 2,000+ artists performing across 50 venues in Buenos Aires.
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Fête de la MusiqueFête de la Musique21 Jun 2027France's nationwide free music day, held every June 21st since 1982 — every street corner, square and courtyard from Paris to the smallest village becomes an impromptu stage.
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A long-running pop, rock and electronica festival on Spain's Costa Azahar, drawing international headliners to the beach town of Benicàssim each July.
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Fiesta de La TiranaFiesta de La Tirana10 Jul 2027 – 20 Jul 2027Chile's largest religious festival, drawing 200,000+ pilgrims for masked Andean dance troupes honoring the Virgen del Carmen in the Atacama Desert.
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Fiesta Nacional de la VendimiaFiesta Nacional de la Vendimia7 Mar 2027 – 8 Mar 2027Argentina's largest wine-harvest festival, featuring a queen-crowning pageant and a folkloric spectacle in Mendoza's open-air Greek theatre.
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A week of parades, bullfighting and street parties marking Quito's 1534 founding, culminating on December 6.
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Fiestas Patrias (Peru Independence Day)Fiestas Patrias (Peru Independence Day)28 Jul 2027 – 29 Jul 2027Peru's independence day, marked nationwide with military parades, fireworks and festivities centered on Lima's historic Plaza Mayor.
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Fiestas Patrias / Dieciocho (Chile)Fiestas Patrias / Dieciocho (Chile)18 Sept 2026 – 19 Sept 2026Chile's national independence celebration, with countrywide "fondas" featuring cueca dancing, rodeo, empanadas and asado.
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FIFA World Cup 2026 FinalFIFA World Cup 2026 FinalThe 2026 World Cup Final at MetLife Stadium, New Jersey — the first World Cup hosted across three countries.
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FIFA World Cup 2026 Opening MatchFIFA World Cup 2026 Opening MatchThe tournament opener at Estadio Azteca, Mexico City — the first stadium to host a World Cup opening match three times.
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Fingal's CaveOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA sea cave on the Scottish island of Staffa formed entirely from hexagonal basalt columns, its natural acoustics inspiring Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture.
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Flaming Tar BarrelsFlaming Tar Barrels5 Nov 2026Locals in Ottery St Mary, Devon carry blazing tar-coated barrels through the town's streets on their backs each Bonfire Night, a tradition passed down through generations of the same families.
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Flushing CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Queens, New York cemetery where jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong is buried.
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Fly GeyserOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA small, brilliantly mineral-colored geyser in the Nevada desert, accidentally created by a geothermal drilling well in 1964.
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Forbidden CityOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe imperial palace at the centre of Beijing, built between 1406 and 1420 and home to Chinese emperors for five centuries.
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Ford's TheatreOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Washington, D.C. theatre where John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865, now a museum and working theatre.
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)OPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Glendale, California cemetery where Nat King Cole is entombed in the Freedom Mausoleum's Sanctuary of Heritage.
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Frank Sinatra's GraveOPEN YEAR-ROUNDFrank Sinatra's grave at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California, near Palm Springs.
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Franschhoek Bastille FestivalFranschhoek Bastille FestivalA French-heritage street festival in South Africa's Cape Winelands, with wine and cheese tastings and a best-dressed competition.
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Freddie Mercury StatueOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA bronze statue of Freddie Mercury on the Lake Geneva promenade in Montreux, Switzerland, where Queen recorded several albums; the location of his ashes has never been publicly disclosed.
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Freddie Mercury's Childhood HomeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Stone Town, Zanzibar house where Freddie Mercury was born in 1946 and spent his early childhood before his family moved to India in 1952; now home to a small museum.
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FSU Chi Omega HouseOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Florida State University sorority house where Ted Bundy committed his final murders on 15 January 1978, still an active Chi Omega chapter house.
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A volcanic archipelago off Ecuador whose isolated wildlife — giant tortoises, marine iguanas, blue-footed boobies — inspired Darwin's theory of evolution.
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Galway International Oyster & Seafood FestivalGalway International Oyster & Seafood Festival25 Sept 2026 – 27 Sept 2026The world's longest-running oyster festival, held on Galway's waterfront with the World Oyster Opening Championships.
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Ganesh Chaturthi / Lalbaugcha RajaGanesh Chaturthi / Lalbaugcha Raja14 Sept 2026 – 25 Sept 2026Mumbai's most iconic Ganesh idol procession and immersion festival, centered on the massively popular "Lalbaugcha Raja" pandal in Lalbaug.
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Gardens by the BayOPEN YEAR-ROUNDSingapore's futuristic nature park, famous for its towering illuminated Supertrees.
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Gathering of the JuggalosGathering of the Juggalos18 Aug 2027 – 21 Aug 2027An annual multi-day gathering of Insane Clown Posse fans at Mother Nature's Riverfront Retreat in Macks Creek, Missouri, with music, wrestling and camping. Dates for the next edition are tentative until officially confirmed.
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GeirangerfjordOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA UNESCO-listed Norwegian fjord ringed by waterfalls and abandoned mountain farms.
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Gelede FestivalGelede Festival1 Apr 2027 – 4 Apr 2027A UNESCO-listed Yoruba tradition across southwestern Benin honoring mothers and female elders through elaborate wooden masks, drumming and dance — the timing shifts within its March–May window each year.
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General Grant National MemorialOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA domed mausoleum in Manhattan's Riverside Park — the largest in North America — holding the remains of President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia.
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Gerewol FestivalGerewol Festival15 Sept 2026 – 20 Sept 2026A Wodaabe courtship and beauty ritual in Niger's Sahel — men in elaborate face paint and ornamentation perform hours-long dances to be judged by the women they hope to court.
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Giant's CausewayOPEN YEAR-ROUNDAround 40,000 interlocking hexagonal basalt columns on Northern Ireland's coast, formed by an ancient volcanic eruption.
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Gion MatsuriGion Matsuri17 Jul 2027Kyoto's grandest festival, featuring enormous wooden floats.
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Glacier ExpressOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe famously slow panoramic train linking Zermatt and St. Moritz across the Swiss Alps.
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Glastonbury FestivalGlastonbury Festival23 Jun 2027 – 27 Jun 2027Legendary five-day music and performing arts festival.
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Glenfinnan ViaductOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA 21-arch Scottish Highlands railway viaduct, crossed by the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter films — the steam train still runs the route in summer.
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The Mina people's new year in the coastal Togolese village of Glidji, centered on retrieving a sacred stone from the forest — its color is believed to foretell the community's fortune for the year ahead.
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Göbekli TepeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA ring of carved megaliths in southeastern Turkey dating to around 9600 BC — the oldest known monumental structure on Earth, predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years.
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Gobustan Mud VolcanoesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA field of bubbling, burping cones near Baku, Azerbaijan — home to roughly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, some erupting flames.
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Kazakh eagle hunters (berkutchi) of Bayan-Ölgii, western Mongolia, compete on horseback with their trained golden eagles in an ancient hunting tradition.
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Golden Gate BridgeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDSan Francisco's Art Deco suspension bridge, walkable, cyclable and one of the most photographed bridges on earth.
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Golders Green CrematoriumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA north London crematorium, the first in London, whose Gardens of Remembrance hold the scattered ashes of The Who's drummer Keith Moon, along with many other notable figures in music, literature and film.
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A hillclimb and car culture celebration at Goodwood House, West Sussex, with historic and current Formula 1 cars run up the estate's driveway.
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Gorges du VerdonOPEN YEAR-ROUNDEurope's largest canyon, a 25km limestone gorge in Provence, France, carved by the turquoise Verdon River.
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Görlitzer WarenhausOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA 1913 department store in Görlitz, Germany, whose grand atrium became the lobby of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). The store had closed and nearly faced demolition before the production saved it from that fate.
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One of Asia's largest limestone cave systems, a South Korean cavern of vast chambers and mineral formations near Samcheok.
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GourdonOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA clifftop village in the hills above Grasse, France, the only French location used for Les Misérables (2012).
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GracelandOPEN YEAR-ROUNDElvis Presley's Memphis, Tennessee mansion, now a museum; he is buried in the Meditation Garden on the grounds alongside his parents and grandmother.
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Grand CanyonOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA mile-deep, 277-mile-long gorge carved by the Colorado River through northern Arizona, exposing nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history.
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Grand NationalGrand National8 Apr 2027 – 10 Apr 2027The world's most famous steeplechase, run over Aintree Racecourse's notorious fences near Liverpool.
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Grand Prismatic SpringOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest hot spring in the United States, its rainbow ring of colors in Yellowstone produced by heat-loving pigmented bacteria.
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Great Barrier ReefOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's largest coral reef system, stretching over 2,300km off Australia's northeast coast — one of the planet's premier diving and snorkeling destinations.
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Great Blue HoleOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA giant marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize, nearly 300 metres across — a bucket-list dive site for its clarity and underwater caverns.
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The wildebeest and zebra migration moves through the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem.
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Over a million wildebeest and zebra cross the Mara River.
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The world's largest half marathon, running from Newcastle to South Shields along England's northeast coast.
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Great Wall of China (Badaling)OPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe most-visited restored section of the Great Wall of China, northwest of Beijing, largely rebuilt during the Ming dynasty (14th–17th century) atop earlier fortifications dating back over 2,000 years.
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Great ZimbabweOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe stone ruins of a medieval city near Masvingo, Zimbabwe, built by the Shona people between the 11th and 15th centuries — the largest ancient stone structure in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Green Mount CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA 19th-century Baltimore cemetery holding the unmarked Booth family plot where John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, is buried.
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Green-Wood CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA 19th-century Brooklyn, New York cemetery where conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein is buried.
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Greenwood Memorial ParkOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA cemetery in Renton, Washington, near Seattle, where Jimi Hendrix is buried beneath a marble dome memorial that draws over 14,000 visitors a year.
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Griffith ObservatoryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Los Angeles hilltop observatory used for the climactic knife-fight scene in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and, later, La La Land (2016).
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Groundhog DayGroundhog Day2 Feb 2027Punxsutawney Phil's annual weather prediction at Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylvania — a tradition running since 1887.
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Gwangalli BeachOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Busan, South Korea beachfront that anchored the high-speed car chase sequence in Black Panther (2018).
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Ha Long BayOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThousands of limestone karsts and islets rising from emerald waters off northern Vietnam.
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Hadrian's WallOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Roman Empire's northernmost frontier, a fortified wall built from 122 CE across the width of England, now a long-distance walking trail.
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Hagia SophiaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDIstanbul's Byzantine cathedral-turned-mosque-turned-museum-turned-mosque, featured in the Bond film From Russia with Love (1963).
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A geothermal site near Guelma, Algeria, where hot mineral springs have built cascading travertine terraces and a dormant cone locals call the 'Cursed City'.
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Hanapepe Valley LookoutOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA scenic overlook on Kauai, Hawaii, above the lush valley used for aerial helicopter shots of the dinosaur-filled landscape in Jurassic Park (1993).
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Choreographed drone light displays over Seoul's Han River, staged across several sessions each spring and autumn from Yeouido, Ttukseom and Jamsil Hangang Parks.
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Harbin Ice and Snow FestivalHarbin Ice and Snow Festival5 Jan 2027 – 5 Feb 2027Enormous illuminated ice sculptures carved from the frozen Songhua River.
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Hay FestivalHay Festival27 May 2027 – 6 Jun 2027A ten-day literature and arts festival in the small Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye, drawing major authors from around the world.
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Heaven LakeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA deep crater lake filling the caldera of Mount Paektu on the China–North Korea border, sacred in both Korean and Manchu folklore.
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Helderberg — SAA Flight 295 SiteOPEN YEAR-ROUNDWhere South African Airways Flight 295, the Helderberg, crashed into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius in 1987 after an in-flight cargo fire, killing all 159 aboard in one of the era's most scrutinized air disasters.
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Hemis FestivalHemis Festival24 Jun 2027 – 25 Jun 2027Ladakh's largest monastic festival, honoring Guru Padmasambhava's birthday with elaborate Cham mask dances at Hemis Monastery.
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Henry River Mill VillageOPEN YEAR-ROUNDAn abandoned early-20th-century mill village near Hildebran, North Carolina, used as District 12 in The Hunger Games (2012).
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Hierve el AguaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDMineral-rich springs in Oaxaca, Mexico, that over millennia have calcified down a cliff face into the appearance of frozen waterfalls.
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A Victorian cemetery in north London whose East side holds the grave of Karl Marx, marked by a large bronze bust erected in 1956.
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Hinterkaifeck Farm SiteOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe site of a remote Bavarian farmstead near Waidhofen, Germany, where six people were murdered with a mattock in 1922 in one of Germany's most infamous unsolved crimes. The farmhouse was demolished in 1923; nothing remains on site.
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Historical Carnival of Ivrea (Battle of the Oranges)Historical Carnival of Ivrea (Battle of the Oranges)6 Feb 2027 – 9 Feb 2027Italy's oldest carnival, re-enacting a medieval rebellion with a three-day battle in which teams pelt each other with hundreds of tons of oranges through the streets of Ivrea.
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Ho Chi Minh MausoleumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA monumental mausoleum on Hanoi's Ba Đình Square holding the embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh, on public display despite his own wish to be cremated.
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Hoba MeteoriteOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest known intact meteorite on Earth, an 60-tonne iron mass that has lain in Namibian soil since prehistoric times.
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Hobbiton Movie SetOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe real, still-standing set of the Shire from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, built into New Zealand's Waikato countryside.
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HogmanayHogmanay31 Dec 2026Scotland's New Year's Eve celebration, with Edinburgh's street party and torchlight procession among the largest in the world.
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Hoh RainforestOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA temperate rainforest in Washington's Olympic National Park, its moss-draped canopy among the wettest ecosystems in the continental US.
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Holi (Braj Region)Holi (Braj Region)22 Mar 2027 – 23 Mar 2027The Braj region's extended Holi is the most famous version of the festival worldwide, including Lathmar Holi in Barsana where women ceremonially beat men with sticks.
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Hollywood Christmas ParadeHollywood Christmas Parade29 Nov 2026A celebrity-studded holiday parade down Hollywood Boulevard, running since 1928 and broadcast nationally every Thanksgiving weekend.
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Holy Trinity ChurchOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe parish church in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, where William Shakespeare was baptised in 1564 and buried in 1616.
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A night parade and fireworks over Victoria Harbour headline citywide Lunar New Year celebrations.
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Hong Kong DisneylandOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe smallest Disney park worldwide, built on reclaimed land on Lantau Island and opened in 2005.
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Honolulu FestivalHonolulu Festival5 Mar 2027 – 7 Mar 2027A three-day cultural exchange festival in Waikīkī celebrating the arts of Hawaii and the Pacific Rim, closing with a grand parade and fireworks over the ocean.
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Hopewell RocksOPEN YEAR-ROUNDTowering flowerpot-shaped rock formations on Canada's Bay of Fundy, walkable on the sea floor at low tide beneath the world's highest tides.
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Hornbill FestivalHornbill Festival1 Dec 2026 – 10 Dec 2026Known as the "Festival of Festivals," all 17 major Naga tribes gather for tribal dance, music and food at Kisama Heritage Village near Kohima.
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Hôtel Sidi DrissOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA working troglodyte hotel dug into the rock in Matmata, Tunisia, whose courtyard was Luke Skywalker's childhood home in the original Star Wars trilogy and the prequels.
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House of Slaves (Door of No Return)OPEN YEAR-ROUNDA former slave-holding house on Gorée Island off Dakar, Senegal, whose 'Door of No Return' is one of the Atlantic slave trade's most visited memorial sites. Ghana's Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle are comparably significant sites from the same trade, not yet added here.
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Humayun's TombOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Mughal garden-tomb in Delhi built for Emperor Humayun in the 1560s, and the architectural forerunner of the Taj Mahal.
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Iguazu FallsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA sprawling system of hundreds of waterfalls on the Argentina–Brazil border, wider than Niagara and taller than Victoria Falls.
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Ik KilOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA cenote near Chichén Itzá, Mexico, a 26m-deep circular sinkhole with vines trailing down to a swimmable turquoise pool.
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Indy 500Indy 50030 May 2027The Indianapolis 500, the world's largest single-day sporting event by attendance, run every year since 1911 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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Inglewood Park CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Los Angeles-area cemetery where jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald is interred in the Sunset Mission Mausoleum.
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InterlakenOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Swiss Alpine town between two lakes that's become Europe's adventure-sports hub — skydiving, canyoning, paragliding and bungee jumping on tap.
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Bathers at Whitehorse, Yukon's hot springs style their wet hair into sculptural shapes in sub-zero air, competing for the wildest ice-frozen hairdo.
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Inti RaymiInti Raymi24 Jun 2027Incan Festival of the Sun, re-enacted at Sacsayhuamán above Cusco.
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IschiaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA volcanic island in the Bay of Naples, Italy, used as a filming location for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999).
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Isle of Wight FestivalIsle of Wight Festival17 Jun 2027 – 20 Jun 2027A major British music festival at Seaclose Park, Newport, tracing its lineage to the legendary 1970 festival that drew 600,000 people.
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Jack the Ripper TourOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA guided evening walk through Whitechapel's Victorian streets, retracing the unsolved 1888 murders that made the area infamous.
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James Dean's GraveOPEN YEAR-ROUNDJames Dean's grave in Park Cemetery, Fairmount, Indiana, near the farm where he grew up.
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Sakura bloom sweeps north across Japan.
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Jeff Buckley MemorialOPEN YEAR-ROUNDTwo plaques at the Memphis Zoo's Sumatran tiger exhibit, dedicated to Jeff Buckley, who drowned in the nearby Wolf River in 1997.
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Jeita GrottoOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA two-tiered system of limestone caves north of Beirut, Lebanon, with a navigable underground river and cavernous stalactite halls.
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Jeju Fire FestivalJeju Fire Festival12 Mar 2027 – 14 Mar 2027A traditional field-burning ritual reimagined as a festival on Jeju Island, culminating in the ceremonial firing of Saebyeol Oreum volcanic cone to ward off pests and welcome spring.
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Korea's largest cherry blossom festival, filling the naval port city of Jinhae with over a million flowering trees, a military parade and a candlelit night market along Yeojwacheon Stream.
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John F. Kennedy Eternal FlameOPEN YEAR-ROUNDPresident John F. Kennedy's grave at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, marked by an eternal flame lit by Jacqueline Kennedy at his funeral in 1963.
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JonestownOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe remote Guyanese settlement where over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, died in a mass murder-suicide on 18 November 1978. No memorial or visitor infrastructure exists on site; the location is documented here for its historical significance rather than as a tourism destination.
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Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town Minstrel Carnival)Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town Minstrel Carnival)2 Jan 2027Thousands of brightly costumed minstrels parade and compete through central Cape Town on 'Tweede Nuwe Jaar' (Second New Year), a tradition dating back over a century.
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Kaieteur FallsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDOne of the world's most powerful single-drop waterfalls, plunging 226m through Guyana's untouched rainforest.
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KaljakelluntaKaljakellunta24 Jul 2027 – 25 Jul 2027An unofficial midsummer gathering north of Helsinki where thousands float down Finland's Kerava and Vantaa rivers on inflatable boats, beers in hand.
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Kanamara MatsuriKanamara Matsuri4 Apr 2027Kawasaki, Japan's good-humored fertility festival, with oversized processions and candy, historically tied to prayers for health, safe childbirth and protection from disease.
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Katz's DelicatessenOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Lower East Side, New York deli open since 1888, the setting for the 'I'll have what she's having' scene in When Harry Met Sally (1989).
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Kazumura CaveOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's longest and deepest known lava tube, a 65km-long tunnel carved by flowing lava from Kīlauea on Hawaii's Big Island.
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Kensico CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA cemetery in Valhalla, New York, where composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff is buried.
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Kentucky Bourbon FestivalKentucky Bourbon Festival10 Sept 2026 – 13 Sept 2026The 35th annual celebration of bourbon in Bardstown, Kentucky, with distillery tastings, master-distiller sessions and rare-bottle releases.
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Kentucky DerbyKentucky Derby1 May 2027'The most exciting two minutes in sports' — horse racing and mint juleps.
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Suriname's Emancipation Day commemorating the 1863 abolition of slavery, marked by the Bigi Spikri costume parade in Paramaribo.
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A needle-thin limestone islet rising from Thailand's Phang Nga Bay, made famous as the villain's lair in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
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Kiana LodgeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA private lakeside lodge in Poulsbo, Washington, used for the Great Northern Hotel's interior and the pilot episode's body-discovery scene in Twin Peaks.
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KīlaueaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDOne of the world's most active volcanoes, on Hawaii's Big Island, whose glowing lava lake is viewable from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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Kilifi New YearKilifi New Year30 Dec 2026 – 1 Jan 2027A multi-day electronic and live music gathering in a baobab forest above Takaungu Creek, Kilifi, Kenya, with art installations set into the coastal forest.
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KilimanjaroOPEN YEAR-ROUNDAfrica's tallest peak and the world's tallest free-standing mountain, a dormant volcano in Tanzania climbable without technical mountaineering gear.
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KinAct FestivalKinAct FestivalAn itinerant street-performance festival touring Kinshasa's working-class neighborhoods, with costumes built from the city's own waste and workshops for local children.
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South Africa's premier Afrikaans arts festival, filling the Karoo town of Oudtshoorn with over 200 theatre, music and visual-art productions for eight days.
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KnossosOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest Bronze Age Minoan palace complex on Crete, occupied from around 1900 BC and linked in myth to King Minos and the Labyrinth.
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KolmanskopOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA once-opulent Namibian diamond-mining town abandoned in the 1950s, its grand houses now half-swallowed by the encroaching Namib Desert sand.
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Kow Ata Underground LakeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA geothermal lake inside a limestone cave near Bakharden, Turkmenistan, its 36°C sulfurous water lit for swimmers 60m below the surface.
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Kublai Khan's Lost FleetOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe wreckage of the Mongol invasion fleets destroyed by typhoons off Takashima, Japan in 1274 and 1281 — the 'kamikaze' (divine wind) that gave the word its meaning, now an active underwater archaeological site.
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Bulgaria's largest masquerade festival, held in Pernik — costumed 'kukeri' in monstrous masks and heavy bells parade through the streets to frighten away evil spirits and welcome spring.
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Kumbh Mela (Haridwar)Kumbh Mela (Haridwar)14 Jan 2027 – 20 Apr 2027Tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims gather on the banks of the Ganges at Haridwar for ritual bathing on the festival's most auspicious dates — one of the largest peaceful gatherings of people on Earth.
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Kumbh Mela (Nashik)Kumbh Mela (Nashik)17 Jul 2027 – 17 Aug 2027The Godavari River town of Nashik hosts its own Kumbh Mela gathering, with ritual bathing at Ramkund drawing millions of pilgrims — 2027 is a rare year when both the Haridwar and Nashik Kumbh Melas fall together.
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Kurt Cobain Memorial ParkOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA riverfront park in Aberdeen, Washington, Kurt Cobain's hometown, dedicated to his memory; he was cremated and his ashes divided between family members rather than buried.
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LA County FairLA County Fair6 May 2027 – 30 May 2027One of the largest county fairs in the US, held at the Fairplex in Pomona, California, with livestock shows, carnival rides and fair food.
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Oaxaca, Mexico's beloved December tradition, where hundreds of contestants carve elaborate scenes out of specially grown radishes for a single-night exhibition and competition, running since 1897.
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Lake BaikalOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's deepest and oldest freshwater lake, a Siberian rift lake holding roughly a fifth of Earth's unfrozen fresh water.
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A permanently bubblegum-pink lake on Middle Island off Western Australia, its color caused by salt-loving algae and never fully explained.
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Lake Louise, Banff National ParkOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA turquoise glacial lake ringed by peaks in the Canadian Rockies, among Canada's most photographed spots.
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Lake MalawiOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA vast African Rift Valley lake bordering Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania, home to more fish species than any other lake on Earth.
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Lake NatronOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA caustic, blood-red soda lake in northern Tanzania, so alkaline it calcifies and preserves the bodies of animals that die in its waters.
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Lake Rose (Lac Rose)OPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Senegalese lake near Dakar whose water turns bubblegum-pink from salt-loving algae, especially vivid in the dry season.
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Lake TiticacaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe highest navigable lake in the world, straddling Peru and Bolivia at 3,812m, home to the Uros people's floating reed islands.
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Lake Turkana FestivalLake Turkana Festival4 Jun 2027 – 6 Jun 2027Fourteen ethnic communities from around Kenya's Lake Turkana — including the Turkana, Samburu, Rendille and El Molo — gather in Loiyangalani for three days of traditional dance, song and dress, timed to the full moon.
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Lake View CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Seattle cemetery on Capitol Hill where martial artist Bruce Lee and his son, actor Brandon Lee, are buried side by side.
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Lakes of OuniangaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA chain of freshwater and saline lakes in the middle of Chad's Sahara desert, an improbable oasis system fed by a fossil aquifer.
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Lamu Cultural FestivalLamu Cultural Festival30 Nov 2026 – 2 Dec 2026Kenya's Swahili-culture showcase on Lamu Island, with dhow races, donkey races, henna painting and traditional bao competitions along the old town's coral-stone streets.
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Lantern Festival (Yuanxiao)Lantern Festival (Yuanxiao)20 Feb 2027The final day of Chinese New Year celebrations, marked with glowing lantern displays, riddle-solving and sweet rice-flour dumplings (tangyuan) — Nanjing's Qinhuai River lantern show is among the most famous.
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Las FallasLas Fallas15 Mar 2027 – 19 Mar 2027Valencia's explosive spring festival, culminating in La Cremà — the burning of hundreds of elaborate satirical monuments (fallas) in bonfires across the city, alongside daily deafening firecracker displays (mascletà).
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Lascaux CavesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA cave complex in the Dordogne painted with Paleolithic animal art around 17,000 years ago — visitors tour a precise facsimile to protect the originals.
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Le Morne Underwater WaterfallOPEN YEAR-ROUNDAn optical illusion off Mauritius's Le Morne Peninsula, where sand and silt runoff streaming down the ocean shelf looks from above like a waterfall underwater.
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Legoland BillundOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe original Legoland, in the Danish town where Lego itself was invented — Miniland alone uses tens of millions of bricks.
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Lena PillarsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA wall of sheer rock pillars up to 100m tall lining the Lena River in Siberia, formed from Cambrian-era seabed sediment.
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Lençóis MaranhensesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Brazilian national park of vast white sand dunes pocked with rainwater lagoons turned brilliant blue and green each rainy season.
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Les InvalidesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Paris monument complex whose domed church holds Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb, a red quartzite sarcophagus set within six nested coffins.
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The final of Brittany's championship for traditional biniou-and-bombarde piper duos, held at the Domaine de Tronjoly in Gourin with competitions, fest-noz dancing and a reed-maker's fair.
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Lincoln TombOPEN YEAR-ROUNDAbraham Lincoln's tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, where he is buried alongside his wife and three of their four sons.
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Lizzie Borden HouseOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Fall River, Massachusetts house where Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered in 1892, a crime Lizzie Borden was tried for and acquitted of. Now operates as a museum and bed-and-breakfast.
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Llanerch DinerOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA classic 1940s diner in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, where the cereal-and-tea scene in Silver Linings Playbook (2012) was filmed.
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Loi Krathong / Yi PengLoi Krathong / Yi Peng24 Nov 2026 – 25 Nov 2026Thousands of paper lanterns released into the night sky over Chiang Mai.
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LollapaloozaLollapalooza29 Jul 2027 – 1 Aug 2027A four-day, multi-genre music festival across Chicago's Grant Park, grown from the original 1991 touring lineup into one of the world's biggest festivals.
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London Fashion WeekLondon Fashion Week17 Sept 2026 – 21 Sept 2026One of the 'Big Four' global fashion weeks, showcasing British and international designers' collections across venues in London.
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Ten days of jazz across London's concert halls and small clubs, drawing major international artists every November.
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One of the World Marathon Majors, winding past London's landmarks from Greenwich Park to The Mall.
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Long Ridge Union CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA cemetery in Stamford, Connecticut, where bandleader and clarinetist Benny Goodman is buried in the family plot.
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Machu PicchuOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe 15th-century Inca citadel high in the Andes, reached via the multi-day Inca Trail — one of the world's most iconic hikes.
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The largest fireworks display in the United States, launched from barges on New York's East River every Independence Day since 1976.
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day ParadeMacy's Thanksgiving Day Parade26 Nov 2026The giant character balloons, floats and marching bands running down Manhattan from Central Park West to Herald Square every Thanksgiving morning since 1924.
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New York State's largest antiques and collectibles show, with over 2,000 dealers spread along Route 20 near Bouckville.
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A trout-fishing and outdoors festival in the Great Smoky Mountains town of Maggie Valley, North Carolina, with casting demos and fly-tying workshops.
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Magic KingdomOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe most-visited theme park on Earth, at the heart of Walt Disney World — Cinderella Castle and the original Florida Disney park, opened 1971.
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Maine Lobster FestivalMaine Lobster FestivalA harborside Rockland, Maine festival famous for the 'World's Largest Lobster Cooker', parades and live music.
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Maior São João do MundoMaior São João do Mundo3 Jun 2027 – 5 Jul 2027Brazil's largest São João celebration, a month-long forró and quadrilha dance festival in Campina Grande marking the June harvest season.
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Makhtesh RamonOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's largest erosion crater, a 40km crescent-shaped canyon in Israel's Negev desert exposing multicolored rock layers.
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Mammoth Hot SpringsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDTerraced travertine formations in Yellowstone built up by hot spring deposits, constantly reshaped as mineral flows shift.
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Manpupuner Rock FormationsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDSeven giant weathered rock pillars in Russia's remote Ural Mountains, sacred to the indigenous Mansi people.
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Maralal International Camel DerbyMaralal International Camel Derby13 Aug 2027 – 15 Aug 2027A dusty, high-spirited camel race through the Samburu highlands town of Maralal, Kenya, with categories for amateurs, professionals and local herders alike.
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Swirling blue-and-white marble caverns carved by wave action into a Patagonian lake on the Chile–Argentina border.
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New Orleans' final Carnival weekend through Fat Tuesday, with elaborate parade krewes, throws and second-line music filling the French Quarter.
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Markt, BrugesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDBruges's central market square, overlooked by the medieval Belfry tower, and the backdrop for much of the black comedy In Bruges (2008).
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Marrakech Medina & Jemaa el-FnaaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDMorocco's walled old city, its central square filling nightly with food stalls, storytellers and snake charmers.
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Maryland Renaissance FestivalMaryland Renaissance Festival29 Aug 2026 – 25 Oct 2026A nine-weekend recreation of a 16th-century English village at Revel Grove near Annapolis, Maryland, with jousting, artisans and period costume.
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Masjid al-Haram (The Kaaba)OPEN YEAR-ROUNDIslam's holiest site, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, built around the Kaaba and the destination of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Entry to Mecca itself is restricted to Muslims — non-Muslims cannot visit.
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Maulidi FestivalMaulidi Festival13 Aug 2027 – 15 Aug 2027Lamu, Kenya's biggest religious festival, marking the Prophet Muhammad's birthday with a week of Swahili poetry, processions and gatherings that draw pilgrims from across East Africa.
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Mausoleum of AugustusOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe restored tomb of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, on the Campus Martius — reopened to the public in 2021 after a decades-long restoration.
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Mausoleum of Qin Shi HuangOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe unexcavated burial mound of China's first emperor, near Xi'an, guarded by the nearby Terracotta Army; the tomb chamber itself, reputedly booby-trapped and lined with a map of rivers in mercury, has never been opened.
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Mehrangarh FortOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA 15th-century hilltop fort towering over Jodhpur, India, used as a filming location for The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011).
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A ten-day, city-wide celebration of Victorian food and wine culture, headlined by the World's Longest Lunch.
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Melody Ranch Motion Picture StudioOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA working Western movie ranch in Santa Clarita, California, in continuous use since the 1930s and the town-arrival setting in Django Unchained (2012).
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Mendenhall Ice CavesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDGlowing blue ice caves carved into Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, reachable by kayak and a glacier hike.
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Mevlana MuseumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA former Sufi lodge in Konya, Turkey, now a museum, holding the turquoise-domed tomb of the 13th-century poet and mystic Rumi.
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Mid-Autumn FestivalMid-Autumn Festival25 Sept 2026Families gather under the full moon to share mooncakes and light lanterns — Hong Kong's Victoria Park is famous for its enormous lantern displays on the night of the festival.
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A fiord of sheer cliffs and waterfalls in New Zealand's Fiordland, reached via one of the world's great hiking tracks.
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Mindelo CarnivalMindelo Carnival7 Feb 2027 – 14 Feb 2027Cape Verde's biggest carnival, filling Mindelo's streets with samba-influenced parades and elaborate costumes through Shrove Tuesday.
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Ming TombsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA valley north of Beijing holding the mausoleums of thirteen Ming dynasty emperors, laid out along a shared ceremonial approach lined with stone statues.
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Mirabell Palace and GardensOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA 17th-century Salzburg palace garden where the 'Do-Re-Mi' sequence of The Sound of Music (1965) was filmed.
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Miracle of the Andes Crash SiteOPEN YEAR-ROUNDWhere Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972 — 16 of the 45 aboard survived 72 days in the mountains, in a story of endurance that became known worldwide as the Miracle of the Andes.
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Miradouro da LuaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe 'Moon Viewpoint' south of Luanda, Angola — a canyon of jagged grey badlands eroded into a lunar-looking landscape above the Atlantic.
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A street celebration of Mombasa, Kenya's coastal cultural diversity, with costumed parades representing dozens of the region's ethnic communities.
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Monarch Butterfly ArrivalMonarch Butterfly Arrival1 Nov 2026 – 15 Mar 2027Millions of monarch butterflies arrive to overwinter in Michoacán's fir forests.
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Monarch butterflies cluster in Michoacán's oyamel fir forests.
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The championship event of the Monster Jam circuit, bringing the world's top monster truck drivers to Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis.
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Mont-Saint-MichelOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA tidal island abbey off the Normandy coast, founded in the 8th century after a bishop's vision of the Archangel Michael — ringed by a 14-metre tidal range that once made it a fortress at high water and a pilgrims' walk at low tide.
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MontaukOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe easternmost hamlet on New York's Long Island, whose off-season beaches feature throughout Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).
Show me on the map →- Monterey Jazz FestivalMonterey Jazz Festival25 Sept 2026 – 27 Sept 2026
The world's longest-running jazz festival, held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in California every September since 1958.
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Quebec's biggest comic and pop-culture convention, held at the Palais des congrès de Montréal.
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Montreux Jazz FestivalMontreux Jazz Festival2 Jul 2027 – 17 Jul 2027A major jazz and contemporary music festival on the shores of Lake Geneva.
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A well-preserved meteorite impact crater in Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the best examples of its kind on Earth.
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Monument ValleyOPEN YEAR-ROUNDTowering red sandstone buttes on the Arizona–Utah border within Navajo Nation land, a backdrop for countless Western films.
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Moomba FestivalMoomba Festival5 Mar 2027 – 8 Mar 2027Melbourne's free Labour Day weekend festival on the banks of the Yarra River, with a parade, fireworks, water skiing and the Birdman Rally.
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Moraine LakeOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA glacially-fed turquoise lake in Banff National Park, Canada, ringed by the jagged peaks of the Valley of the Ten Peaks.
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Mount Carmel CenterOPEN YEAR-ROUNDSite of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, where a 51-day standoff with federal agents ended in a fire that killed 76 people on 19 April 1993. Now a small memorial chapel and grounds, open to visitors.
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Mount EtnaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDEurope's tallest and most active volcano, towering over eastern Sicily, Italy, and in near-constant eruption.
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Mount EverestOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's highest mountain, straddling the Nepal–China border at 8,849m, its Base Camp trek one of the most sought-after in the world.
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Mount StromboliOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA small volcanic island off Sicily, Italy, nicknamed the 'Lighthouse of the Mediterranean' for its mild, near-continuous eruptions visible for miles at night.
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Mummers ParadeMummers Parade1 Jan 2027Philadelphia's costumed New Year's Day tradition, dating to 1901, with string bands and elaborately themed brigades marching down Broad Street.
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Museo Nazionale RomanoOPEN YEAR-ROUNDRome's national collection of classical antiquities, spread across several historic buildings including the Palazzo Massimo near Termini station.
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Naadam FestivalNaadam Festival11 Jul 2027 – 13 Jul 2027Mongolia's 'Three Manly Games' — wrestling, horse racing and archery.
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Nairobi Film FestivalNairobi Film Festival15 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026A showcase of Kenyan and international independent cinema across Nairobi venues, spotlighting East African filmmaking talent.
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Nairobi Restaurant WeekNairobi Restaurant Week21 Jan 2027 – 31 Jan 2027Ten days of special set menus and tasting deals across Nairobi's restaurant scene, a chance to sample the city's top kitchens at a discount.
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Nakatomi PlazaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe real Fox Plaza, a Century City, Los Angeles office tower that played Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard (1988) — still a working office building, not open for tours.
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Naki Sumo (Crying Baby Festival)Naki Sumo (Crying Baby Festival)25 Apr 2027Sumo wrestlers hold babies and try to make them cry first at Tokyo's Sensoji Temple — in Japanese tradition, a louder cry wards off evil spirits and brings good health.
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A long-running, dialogue-free comedy show blending traditional Korean drumming with kitchen-knife theatrics, performed nightly in Seoul's Myeongdong and Hongdae districts.
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Napoli Pizza VillageNapoli Pizza VillageA large open-air pizza and street-food festival on the Naples waterfront, with live concerts and dozens of pizzerias.
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National Civil Rights MuseumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDBuilt around the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, tracing the history of the US civil rights movement.
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The season-ending championship of professional rodeo, ten nights of bull riding, barrel racing and roping at Las Vegas's Thomas & Mack Center.
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NauryzNauryz21 Mar 2027 – 23 Mar 2027Central Asia's Turkic New Year and spring festival, marked in Almaty with yurts, folk wrestling and equestrian games like kokpar and kyz kuu.
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Tajikistan's biggest holiday, the ancient Persian-rooted spring New Year, marked nationwide with its largest parades and concerts in the capital, Dushanbe.
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The world's biggest rideable waves break at Praia do Norte, where a submarine canyon amplifies North Atlantic swells into 20-metre walls — the proving ground for big-wave surfing.
Show me on the map → - NBA FinalsNBA Finals10 Jun 2027 – 22 Jun 2027
The best-of-seven series deciding the NBA champion, played at the higher-seeded finalist's home arena — illustrated here at TD Garden, Boston.
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Nehru Trophy Boat RaceNehru Trophy Boat RaceKerala's premier snake-boat race, where crews of up to 100 rowers race elaborately decorated "chundan vallam" longboats on Alappuzha's Punnamada Lake.
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Nelson Mandela Burial SiteOPEN YEAR-ROUNDNelson Mandela's ancestral homestead in Qunu, Eastern Cape, South Africa, where he was buried in 2013 following a state funeral.
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New Orleans Ghost & Vampire ToursOPEN YEAR-ROUNDLantern-lit walking tours through the French Quarter's haunted courtyards, cemeteries and vampire lore.
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New Orleans Historic Voodoo MuseumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA small French Quarter museum tracing the history and practice of New Orleans Voodoo, rooted in West African, Haitian and Catholic traditions.
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New Year's Day Parade (London)New Year's Day Parade (London)1 Jan 2027A marching-band and float procession through central London every New Year's Day, running since 1987.
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New York City MarathonNew York City Marathon1 Nov 2026The world's largest marathon by participation, running through all five NYC boroughs from Staten Island to a Central Park finish.
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New York Comic ConNew York Comic Con8 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 2026The East Coast's largest pop-culture convention, four days of comics, gaming and entertainment programming at the Javits Center, Manhattan.
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North America's oldest and largest-attended auto show, ten days of new-model debuts and concept cars at the Javits Center, Manhattan.
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Ngorongoro CraterOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's largest intact volcanic caldera, a Tanzanian crater floor packed with one of Africa's densest concentrations of wildlife.
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Niagara FallsOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe thundering falls straddling the Canada–US border, one of the world's most visited natural landmarks.
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Ninth Avenue International Food FestivalNinth Avenue International Food Festival15 May 2027 – 16 May 2027A weekend street fair along Manhattan's Ninth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen, with dozens of restaurants serving cuisines from around the world — running since 1974.
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NomaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Copenhagen restaurant that redefined New Nordic cuisine, repeatedly named the world's best restaurant under chef René Redzepi.
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The Xwla and Xwela communities of Grand-Popo, Benin gather over Pentecost weekend to promote peace and unity through this century-old coastal celebration.
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North Carolina Chinese Lantern FestivalNorth Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival21 Nov 2026 – 10 Jan 2027Handcrafted illuminated silk lantern displays filling Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, North Carolina, through the winter months.
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Prime aurora borealis viewing across Iceland and Scandinavia.
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Notre-Dame CathedralOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Gothic cathedral at the heart of Paris, construction begun in 1163 — reopened in 2024 after the 2019 fire and restoration.
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Notting Hill CarnivalNotting Hill CarnivalEurope's largest street carnival — Caribbean culture, sound systems and parade.
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Novodevichy CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDMoscow's most prestigious cemetery, resting place of composer Dmitri Shostakovich alongside many other major Russian and Soviet cultural figures.
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NowruzNowruz20 Mar 2027 – 21 Mar 2027The Persian New Year, marked at the exact moment of the spring equinox — Iran's biggest holiday, with the haft-sin table, spring cleaning and family gatherings celebrated across the country.
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Nuuk Snow FestivalNuuk Snow Festival19 Mar 2027 – 21 Mar 2027Sculptors from around the world gather in Greenland's capital to carve massive, intricate art pieces from blocks of snow.
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Oakridge CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, near Chicago, where blues musician Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is buried.
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Ocean Park Hong KongOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA hillside marine-life theme park with a cable car and funicular linking its headland and waterfront sections.
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OktoberfestOktoberfest19 Sept 2026 – 4 Oct 2026The world's largest beer festival and folk celebration.
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Oktoberfest BlumenauOktoberfest Blumenau7 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026The largest Oktoberfest in the Americas, a nearly three-week German-Brazilian beer, food and folk-culture festival in Blumenau, Santa Catarina.
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Old HavanaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDHavana's colonial-era historic centre, the setting for the Ealing comedy Our Man in Havana (1959), filmed on location shortly before the Cuban Revolution.
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A countercultural arts, music and crafts fair held in the forest outside Veneta, Oregon, running since 1969.
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Osteria FrancescanaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDMassimo Bottura's three-Michelin-star restaurant in Modena, reimagining classic Italian dishes with playful precision.
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Osun-Osogbo FestivalOsun-Osogbo Festival26 Jul 2027 – 6 Aug 2027A centuries-old UNESCO-listed festival honoring the Yoruba river goddess Osun at her sacred grove in Osogbo, Nigeria, drawing pilgrims for rituals, song and procession.
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Otis Redding is buried on the grounds of his former ranch near Round Oak, Georgia — private family property, not generally open to the public.
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Ouidah Voodoo FestivalOuidah Voodoo Festival10 Jan 2027Benin's national Vodun holiday, centered on the coastal town of Ouidah — ceremonies, drumming and processions honoring the country's indigenous Vodun religion.
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The 15th annual LGBTQ+ festival in Manteo, North Carolina, with sunset cruises, cabaret shows and drag brunches.
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Pahiyas FestivalPahiyas Festival15 May 2027A harvest thanksgiving festival where Lucban's houses are covered floor-to-roof in vegetables, fruit and colorful rice-wafer "kiping" decorations.
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Palace of VersaillesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe vast royal residence outside Paris, expanded from the 1660s under Louis XIV and lined with the Hall of Mirrors.
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PamukkaleOPEN YEAR-ROUNDBrilliant white travertine terraces of mineral-rich thermal pools cascading down a hillside in southwestern Turkey, 'Pamukkale' meaning 'cotton castle'.
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ParicutínOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA cinder-cone volcano that burst from a Mexican cornfield in 1943 and grew to 424m within a year — one of the few volcanoes in history whose entire life cycle was observed by scientists.
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Park Hyatt TokyoOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Shinjuku skyscraper hotel that provided both setting and backdrop for Lost in Translation (2003).
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Paro TshechuParo Tshechu29 Mar 2027 – 2 Apr 2027Bhutan's most iconic masked Cham dance festival, culminating in the pre-dawn unfurling of a giant sacred thangka at Paro's Rinpung Dzong.
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Pattaya International Fireworks FestivalPattaya International Fireworks Festival27 Nov 2026 – 28 Nov 2026Two nights of internationally choreographed fireworks displays set to music over Pattaya's central beach, Thailand.
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Pena PalaceOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe fantastical Romanticist palace crowning the Sintra hills, built 1842–1854 atop a ruined medieval monastery for King Ferdinand II in a riot of Neo-Gothic, Neo-Manueline and Neo-Islamic styles — the centerpiece of the UNESCO-listed Cultural Landscape of Sintra, managed today by Parques de Sintra.
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Père Lachaise CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDParis's most famous cemetery, resting place of Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Chopin and Édith Piaf.
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Paraguay's largest religious event, with close to a million pilgrims — some walking 36 miles from Asunción — converging on the Caacupé basilica.
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Perito Moreno GlacierOPEN YEAR-ROUNDOne of the few advancing glaciers left on Earth, a Patagonian ice giant that periodically calves house-sized chunks into Argentino Lake.
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Peruaçu CavesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA vast limestone cave system in Minas Gerais, Brazil, holding some of South America's oldest known rock art.
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The Nabataean city carved into rose-red sandstone cliffs, reached on foot through the narrow Siq gorge.
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A Taoist purification festival across Phuket Town's Chinese shrines, with street processions and strictly vegetarian street food.
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Piazza della SignoriaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDFlorence's civic square, an open-air sculpture gallery and the setting for scenes in A Room with a View (1985) and Hannibal (2001).
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PicklesburghPicklesburgh15 Jul 2027 – 18 Jul 2027A four-day pickle-themed food festival spanning Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente Bridge, with every conceivable pickled food and a pickle-juice drinking contest.
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Pink Beach, KomodoOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA beach in Indonesia's Komodo National Park tinted rose-pink by crushed red coral mixed into its white sand.
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Platform 9¾, King's Cross StationOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA half-vanished luggage trolley built into the wall of London's King's Cross Station, marking the Hogwarts Express departure point from Harry Potter.
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Plitvice LakesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA chain of 16 terraced turquoise lakes in Croatia, connected by waterfalls and wooden boardwalks through forest.
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Pohela BoishakhPohela Boishakh14 Apr 2027Bangladesh's biggest secular festival — the Bengali New Year — centered on Dhaka University's colorful Mangal Shobhajatra procession.
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PompeiiOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Roman city buried — and preserved — by Mount Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE, its streets, villas and frescoes still walkable today.
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Pont du GardOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA three-tiered Roman aqueduct bridge in southern France, engineered in the 1st century CE and still standing over the Gardon river.
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PortAventura ParkOPEN YEAR-ROUNDOne of Europe's largest theme parks, its themed lands spanning Mediterranean, Wild West, Mexican and Polynesian worlds.
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Portobello Road MarketOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Notting Hill, London street market at the centre of the romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999).
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Prague CastleOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe largest ancient castle complex in the world, overlooking Prague, used as a filming location in Mission: Impossible (1996).
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Premier League: Manchester DerbyPremier League: Manchester Derby8 Nov 2026Manchester City host Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium in one of English football's biggest rivalries.
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Premier League: Merseyside DerbyPremier League: Merseyside Derby20 Feb 2027Liverpool host Everton at Anfield in the longest-running top-flight derby in English football.
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Premier League: North London DerbyPremier League: North London Derby13 Sept 2026Arsenal host Tottenham Hotspur at the Emirates Stadium in one of English football's fiercest rivalries.
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Premier League: North West DerbyPremier League: North West Derby7 Mar 2027Manchester United host Liverpool at Old Trafford — the fixture with the most combined league titles between two English clubs.
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Premier League: Tyne-Wear DerbyPremier League: Tyne-Wear Derby17 Oct 2026Newcastle United host Sunderland at St James' Park in the North East's fiercest rivalry, renewed as both clubs meet again in the Premier League.
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Primavera SoundPrimavera Sound3 Jun 2027 – 5 Jun 2027A sprawling indie, rock and electronic lineup across multiple stages at Barcelona's Parc del Fòrum, marking its landmark 25th edition in 2027.
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Puerto Princesa Subterranean RiverOPEN YEAR-ROUNDOne of the world's longest navigable underground rivers, winding 8km through a Palawan, Philippines cave system to the sea.
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Pyramids of GizaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, standing on the edge of Cairo for over 4,500 years.
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Qingdao International Beer FestivalQingdao International Beer Festival17 Jul 2027 – 15 Aug 2027Often called "Asia's Oktoberfest," China's largest beer festival draws millions to Qingdao's coastal venues for beer tents, live music and food.
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Rainforest World Music FestivalRainforest World Music Festival26 Jun 2027 – 28 Jun 2027A globally renowned three-day world-music festival at the foot of Mount Santubong, pairing international performers with Borneo indigenous cultural workshops.
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A wetland in Liaoning, China, where a seep weed called sueda turns the marshland a brilliant crimson red every autumn.
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Red Bull BC One World FinalRed Bull BC One World Final20 Nov 2027Breaking's world championship — one-on-one battles crowning a men's and women's world champion. Host city rotates yearly; illustrated here at a recent host, Kraków.
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Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series — Polignano a MareRed Bull Cliff Diving World Series — Polignano a Mare5 Jun 2027 – 6 Jun 2027Divers leap from a 27-metre platform above the sea into the natural harbour of this cliffside Italian town.
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Red Bull Crashed IceRed Bull Crashed Ice23 Jan 2027Ice cross downhill — skaters race four-at-a-time down a steep, twisting frozen track through city streets. Host city rotates yearly; illustrated here at a longtime venue, Saint Paul.
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Red Bull ErzbergrodeoRed Bull Erzbergrodeo5 Jun 2027 – 6 Jun 2027Widely considered the world's toughest off-road motorcycle race — riders battle scree slopes and sheer mine terraces inside an active Austrian iron-ore mine.
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Freeride mountain biking's most extreme event, riders dropping down exposed sandstone cliffs outside Virgin, Utah.
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Red Square & Saint Basil's CathedralOPEN YEAR-ROUNDMoscow's historic central square, dominated by the swirling onion domes of Saint Basil's Cathedral.
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Registan, SamarkandOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe monumental square of three tiled madrasas at the heart of a great Silk Road city.
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Reno RodeoReno Rodeo17 Jun 2027 – 26 Jun 2027'The Wildest, Richest Rodeo in the West,' opening with a multi-day cattle drive into Reno, Nevada, ahead of ten nights of professional rodeo.
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Return of the SunReturn of the Sun13 Jan 2027The day Ilulissat, Greenland greets the sun's return after weeks of polar night — the community gathers at Seqinniarfik ('the place to go and greet the sun') to sing it back into the sky.
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Réveillon de CopacabanaRéveillon de Copacabana31 Dec 2026The world's largest New Year's Eve celebration, with roughly 2 million people on Copacabana Beach watching a fireworks display fired from offshore barges.
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RHS Chelsea Flower ShowRHS Chelsea Flower Show18 May 2027 – 22 May 2027The world's most prestigious flower show, staged in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea every May.
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Richat Structure (Eye of the Sahara)OPEN YEAR-ROUNDA vast bullseye-shaped rock formation in the Mauritanian desert, 40km across and visible from space.
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RijksmuseumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDAmsterdam's national museum, built around the Dutch Golden Age masterpieces of Rembrandt and Vermeer.
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Rio CarnivalRio Carnival6 Feb 2027 – 9 Feb 2027The world's biggest carnival — samba schools, parades and street parties.
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A Spanish river stained deep red by acidic, iron-rich mine runoff, its extreme chemistry studied by NASA as an analogue for early Mars.
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RMS LusitaniaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA British ocean liner torpedoed by a German U-boat off Ireland in 1915, killing nearly 1,200 people and helping draw the US into WWI.
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RMS TitanicOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe wreck of the 'unsinkable' liner, lying 3,800m deep in the North Atlantic since its 1912 sinking — visited only by deep-sea submersibles, never by divers.
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Roadhouse Restaurant and InnOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA 1916 roadhouse in Fall City, Washington, whose exterior appeared as the Bang Bang Bar (The Roadhouse) in Twin Peaks.
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Roman ForumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe political and commercial heart of ancient Rome, its temple columns and basilicas rising from the valley beside the Colosseum and Palatine Hill.
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Rose ParadeRose Parade1 Jan 2027The flower-covered float procession down Pasadena, California's Colorado Boulevard every New Year's Day, running since 1890.
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Rose Valley, CappadociaOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA canyon of pink-and-red volcanic rock formations in Cappadocia, Turkey, famously photographed at sunrise from hot air balloons overhead.
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Rossini's TombOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA monumental marble tomb in Florence's Basilica of Santa Croce holding composer Gioachino Rossini's remains, moved here from Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery in 1887.
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Rouketopolemos (Rocket War)Rouketopolemos (Rocket War)1 May 2027 – 2 May 2027Two rival churches on opposite hillsides in Vrontados, Chios launch up to 80,000 homemade rockets at each other on Holy Saturday night — an Ottoman-era Easter tradition with no official referee or winner.
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Royal AscotRoyal Ascot15 Jun 2027 – 19 Jun 2027Britain's grandest horse racing meeting, a five-day fixture at Ascot Racecourse famous as much for its formal dress code as its racing.
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Royal Edinburgh Military TattooRoyal Edinburgh Military TattooMassed pipes and drums performing on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle each August, broadcast around the world.
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Royal International Air TattooRoyal International Air Tattoo16 Jul 2027 – 18 Jul 2027The world's largest military airshow, held at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire with display teams from air forces worldwide.
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Running of the BullsRunning of the Bulls6 Jul 2027 – 14 Jul 2027Daily bull runs through the streets of Pamplona, followed by fiesta.
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Rupununi Ranchers' RodeoRupununi Ranchers' Rodeo3 Apr 2027 – 5 Apr 2027A savanna cattle-ranching rodeo in Guyana's remote interior blending vaquero riding contests with Indigenous Wapishana and Macushi culture.
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An annual homecoming and heritage festival on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria, Kenya, held the Thursday and Friday before Christmas with traditional Luo music, dance and food.
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Saalfeld Fairy GrottoesOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA former alum mine in Germany turned rainbow-colored show cave, its walls stained vivid hues by mineral oxidation.
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Thousands of loincloth-clad men crowd into Okayama's Saidaiji Kannon-in Temple at midnight to fight for a pair of lucky sacred sticks thrown into the crowd, in one of Japan's largest 'naked festivals.'
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Saigon Execution SiteOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe Cho Lon street corner, then on Minh Mạng Street (today's Ngô Gia Tự Street, District 10), where South Vietnamese national police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan summarily shot a bound Viet Cong prisoner — commonly identified as Nguyễn Văn Lém — on 1 February 1968, the second day of the Tet Offensive. AP photographer Eddie Adams' photo of the moment, 'Saigon Execution,' became one of the most iconic and consequential images of the Vietnam War. An ordinary street corner today, with no memorial or marker.
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Saint Raymond's CemeteryOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Bronx, New York cemetery where jazz singer Billie Holiday is buried alongside her mother.
Show me on the map →- Saint-Louis International Jazz FestivalSaint-Louis International Jazz Festival12 May 2027 – 16 May 2027
West Africa's premier jazz festival, filling the UNESCO-listed colonial streets of Saint-Louis, Senegal with international and Senegalese musicians.
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Salar de UyuniOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's largest salt flat, its mirror-like surface after rain making the horizon disappear.
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Salon du ChocolatSalon du Chocolat28 Oct 2026 – 1 Nov 2026The world's largest chocolate and pastry fair, with tastings, demonstrations and workshops at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.
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The original and largest pop-culture and comics convention in the US, taking over the San Diego Convention Center every summer since 1970.
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San Francisco PrideSan Francisco Pride26 Jun 2027 – 27 Jun 2027One of the world's largest LGBTQ+ pride celebrations, a parade and civic-center festival held in San Francisco every June since 1972.
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Sanké MonSanké Mon10 Jun 2027A UNESCO-listed collective fishing rite in a sacred pond in San, Mali, with masked dancers and communal fishing marking the town's founding — timed to the traditional lunar calendar, so the exact date shifts year to year.
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Sarasota Medieval FairSarasota Medieval Fair7 Nov 2026 – 6 Dec 2026A weekends-only recreation of a medieval marketplace near Sarasota, Florida, with jousting knights, artisans and period entertainment.
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Sauti za BusaraSauti za Busara11 Feb 2027 – 14 Feb 2027A pan-African music festival filling the historic streets and forts of Stone Town, Zanzibar.
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A medieval hill town in Sicily where Francis Ford Coppola filmed Michael Corleone's Sicilian exile scenes in The Godfather (1972), including Bar Vitelli.
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Scala dei TurchiOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA dazzling white limestone cliff on Sicily's southern coast, stepped like a staircase down to the sea.
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The nighttime parade capping Seattle's Seafair summer festival, marching bands and floats lit up through downtown.
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Semana Criolla del PradoSemana Criolla del Prado29 Mar 2027 – 5 Apr 2027Uruguay's biggest gaucho festival, centered on a bareback rodeo contest ("jineteada") alongside folk music, payada singing and asado.
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Semana Santa (Málaga)Semana Santa (Málaga)21 Mar 2027 – 28 Mar 2027Málaga's Holy Week processions, known for their scale and for the tradition of prisoners being pardoned and marching with the brotherhoods — solemn nightly parades of penitents and religious floats through the old town.
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Semana Santa (Seville)Semana Santa (Seville)21 Mar 2027 – 28 Mar 2027Seville's Holy Week, among the most elaborate in the world — hooded penitent brotherhoods carry ornate floats of Christ and the Virgin through the streets day and night, culminating in the pre-dawn Madrugá processions.
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Semana Santa en AyacuchoSemana Santa en Ayacucho11 Apr 2027 – 20 Apr 2027Peru's most significant Holy Week, with over 10 candlelit processions daily through Ayacucho — widely regarded as Latin America's second-most important after Seville.
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Señor de los Milagros ProcessionsSeñor de los Milagros Processions5 Oct 2026 – 1 Nov 2026Peru's most important religious procession, when millions wear purple to honor a colonial-era image of Christ that survived a 1687 Lima earthquake.
Show me on the map →- Seoul International Fireworks FestivalSeoul International Fireworks Festival
A single night of internationally choreographed fireworks over the Han River at Yeouido, one of Seoul's most-attended annual events.
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Seoul Lantern FestivalSeoul Lantern Festival11 Dec 2026 – 3 Jan 2027Thousands of illuminated lantern sculptures line Seoul's Cheonggyecheon Stream through the winter, a free nightly light festival in the heart of downtown.
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Sex Machines MuseumOPEN YEAR-ROUNDA Prague museum tracing the history of erotic mechanical devices from the 15th century to today, in the heart of the Old Town.
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Sexmuseum Amsterdam VenustempelOPEN YEAR-ROUNDThe world's first sex museum, on Amsterdam's Damrak since 1985, covering erotic art and history from antiquity onward.
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Shandur Polo FestivalShandur Polo Festival11 Jun 2027 – 13 Jun 2027A freestyle polo tournament between Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan teams played at 3,700m on Shandur Pass — the highest polo ground on Earth.
Show me on the map →- Shenandoah Apple Blossom FestivalShenandoah Apple Blossom Festival23 Apr 2027 – 2 May 2027
The 100th running of Winchester, Virginia's spring festival celebrating the region's apple orchards, with parades, a carnival and a fireworks finale.
Show me on the map → - Sinchon Water Gun FestivalSinchon Water Gun Festival30 Jul 2027 – 31 Jul 2027
A mass water fight down Seoul's Sinchon and Yonsei-ro streets, with stages, foam cannons and thousands of participants cooling off from the summer heat.
Show me on the map → - Singapore Food FestivalSingapore Food Festival4 Sept 2026 – 24 Sept 2026
Singapore's flagship culinary celebration spanning hawker centres, Chinatown, Dempsey Hill and partner restaurants island-wide.
Show me on the map → - Six Nations ChampionshipSix Nations Championship5 Feb 2027 – 13 Mar 2027
The annual rugby championship between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales, with matches at Principality Stadium, Twickenham and Murrayfield.
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Six Nations: Calcutta CupSix Nations: Calcutta Cup6 Feb 2027England face Scotland at Twickenham in rugby's oldest international fixture, part of the Six Nations Championship.
Show me on the map →- Skagit Valley Tulip FestivalSkagit Valley Tulip Festival1 Apr 2027 – 30 Apr 2027
A month of vivid tulip fields in bloom across Washington's Skagit Valley near Mount Vernon and La Conner, one of the country's biggest bulb-growing regions.
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SónarSónar17 Jun 2027 – 19 Jun 2027Barcelona's pioneering electronic and experimental music festival, split between daytime showcases and all-night club sessions, with an adjoining Sónar+D program on creativity and technology.
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SongkranSongkran13 Apr 2027 – 15 Apr 2027Thai New Year water festival — the whole city becomes a water fight.
Show me on the map →- SoundafriqueSoundafrique17 Apr 2027
A coastal Kilifi, Kenya gathering built around Afro House and Afro Tech sounds, part of the town's growing reputation as an East African music destination.
Show me on the map → - South Asian Monsoon SeasonSouth Asian Monsoon Season1 Jun 2026 – 30 Sept 2026
Heavy monsoon rains sweep across India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
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Splendour in the GrassSplendour in the Grass23 Jul 2027 – 25 Jul 2027One of the Southern Hemisphere's biggest music festivals, held near Byron Bay.
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St Andrew's DaySt Andrew's Day30 Nov 2026Scotland's national day, honoring its patron saint with celebrations across the country.
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