1. Place: Deming, New Mexico. Event: wet or dry track racing of feathered, web-footed friends for prize money. Festival includes: outhouse races, tortilla toss, royalty pageant, food vendors, hot-air balloons, themed parade and carnival. All-American Chicken Championships Great American Goose Gallop Great American Duck Race All-American Swan Swim-off

2. Place: Abbeville, Louisiana. Event: using 5,000+ eggs to celebrate friendship. Festival includes: historic downtown walk, arts and crafts show, music, an egg-cracking contest and antique cars. Scrambled Egg Awareness Day Humpty Dumpty Day Eggs and Issues Festival 5,000 Egg Giant Omelette Celebration

3. Place: Valparaiso, Indiana. Event: making the first Saturday after Labor Day "pop". Festival includes: hot air balloons, a themed parade, food and craft booths and Prince and Princess contest. Soda Pop Celebration Caramel Corn Days Popcorn Festival Balloon-a-rama

4. Place: Marlington, West Virginia. Event: cooking contest using "accidentally departed" ingredients. Festival: samples of the recipes, craft vendors, music, food booths, horse show, agricultural show and classic cars. Possum-bilities Cook-off Roadkill Cook-off FORD (Found On Road Dead) Festival Honey, I Smashed the Deer Celebration

5. Place: Crystal Falls, Michigan. Event: celebrating possibly the world's largest and oldest living organism. Festival includes: city-wide Rummage Sale and Flea market, cooking of a 10' x 10' pizza, car show, food and fun. Magnificent Mushroom Mania Humongous Fungus Fest Fantastic Fungus Among Us Holy Fungus, Batman! It's a Giant Mushroom!

6. Place: Kenwood, California. Event: a 4th of July tradition in which contestants battle it out using a piece of bedding while seated on a slippery pole. Festival includes: Parade, family entertainment, food vendors and a foot race. World Pillow Fighting Championships International Bed-making Championships World Sheet Folding Championships World's Fastest Bed-maker Championships

7. Place: Lind, Washington. Event: spending the second weekend in June driving antique harvest machines into, over and through each other with the intent of being the last machine moving. Festival includes: 2 parades, truck races, BBQ in the park and family entertainment. Kill-the-Tractor Contest Combine Maniacs Championships Harvester Pandemonium Fest Combine Demolition Derby

8. Place: Manitou Springs, Colorado. Event: racing final enclosures in memory of a young lady who passed at an early age. Festival includes: Parade of Hearses, walking tours by lantern light, children's fun run, food booths, telling of tall tales and other spooky events. Emma Crawford Coffin Races Emma Crawford Haunted Graveyard Run Emma Crawford Casket Careen Emma Crawford Railcar Runaway

9. Place: Austin, Texas. Event: glorifying a well-known American food. Festival includes: cook-off, an Olympics-style event, arts & crafts, face painting and samples of the featured item. Pandemonious Potted Pork Festival What a Ham I Am Fest Ham-a-rooni Day Spamarama

10. Place: Spivey's Corner, North Carolina. Event: spending the 3rd Saturday of June exercising contestants lungs and vocal cords. Festival includes: whistling contest, seperate men's and ladies' events, conch shell and fox horn blowing, food, and fun for the whole family. National Hollerin' Contest Yellin' and Tellin' Championships Yell and Scream to Your Heart's Delight Festival Hollerin' Hollow Festival

11. Place: Viola, Minnesota. Event: rounding up crop-destroying critters and making a festival out of it. Festival includes: tractor show, parade, royalty pageant, ladies' nail driving contest, pie-eating contest, doll-buggy parade, a street dance, rides, food and fireworks. Gopher Count Groundhog Grab Weevil Roundup Crow Countdown

12. Place: East Dublin, Georgia. Event: plain ole country folks competing for prizes. Festival includes: hubcap hurl, mudpit bellyflop, fireworks, food vendors and lighting of the ceremonial BBQ grill. Summer Redneck Games Country Folks Jamboree Hillybilly Hoedown Hicks-a-rama

13. Place: Seattle, Washington. Event: contestants attempting to ferry watercraft made out of 1/2 gallon jugs to the finish line. Festival includes: a marathon, royalty contest, parade, food booths, airshow and fireworks. Jugs Across The Water Festival Water Jug Jamboree Milk Carton Derby Rub-a-dub-jugs

14. Place: Marshall, Texas. Event: poking fun at a pesky, stinging insect. Festival includes: parade, chili cook-off, diaper derby, food vendors, bicycle race, arts and crafts and a rubber chicken chunking contest. Cockroach Cottillion Horsefly Honorarium Flea-Fest Fire Ant Festival

15. Place: El Reno, Oklahoma. Event: cooking, celebrating and eating of a whole lotta burger. Festival includes: live entertainment, a classic car show, burger eating contest, Bun Run, craft show and carnival. Fried Onion Burger Day Tournament of Burgers Day Cheeseburger Mania Burger-licious Festival