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Bayreuth is a city in Franconia, Germany best known for its month-long Wagner Festival every summer. The town features a wealth of impressive baroque and rococo architecture, as well as freshly-brewed Franconian beer in the local Biergartens and a lively nightlife thanks to 10,000 university students. (more...)

Hovd is a city in western Mongolia with a diverse ethnic makeup and an equally diverse range of attractions for travelers, from the ancient cave paintings at Tsenkheriin Agui to regular performances of Kazakh and Mongolian dance, traditional music, and khoomii (throat singing). (more...)

• You'll find some strangely phallic-shaped rock formations in Göreme's Love Valley in Turkey.
• Nagano's Binzuru Festival is celebrated by banging together rice scoops and rubbing down the statue of an Indian saint.
• The nation of Guadeloupe is nicknamed Butterfly Island, as the two main islands look like butterfly wings.

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