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The new year tradition of Mitaarfik in Greenland features a bunch of people in masks hanging out in your house without saying a word.
About this time in 1910, a member of Congress thought the next big food trend would be hippo meat.
Today marks the start of another Earth orbit around the sun, but there's also something called the galactic year, and that one just keeps going and going and going.
We’re ringing in the new year (as well as marking National Ring a Bell Day) with the story of a bell that’s been ringing year in and year out for almost two centuries.
Watching TV on the last night of the year? That's fine; in fact, there’s a tradition on German TV of showing a classic comedy sketch every December 31.
Today in 1952, a double decker bus driver in London had to make a split second decision to protect his passengers… and realized the safest option was to gun it and jump a city landmark.
There’s a tradition around this time of year in Wales called Mari Lwyd. It starts with a knock at the door in the winter night, and it only gets spookier from there.
The eight day Festival of Lights takes place toward the end of each year, but due to some unusual circumstances, there won't be a Hanukkah at all in 3031 (!)
Merry Christmas! On this day of giving, you deserve a treat: a holiday favorite in Caribbean countries known as black cake.
In Iceland, book lovers take part in Jólabókaflóð , which means "the Christmas flood of books." And they're not exaggerating.
