We read the recaps, checked the dates and skipped the SEO filler — this is a hand-picked map of festivals, retreats, conventions and parades that are actually worth the plane ticket.
Photo: Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0
Anyone can scrape a list of festival dates. We picked 75 gatherings — deserts, jungles, city streets and mountain ranges — because each one has a story worth telling, and we wrote every entry ourselves.