Summer Vacation Travel Destinations: Bizarre and Weird Summer Festivals

Summer time is all about vacations. Whether you're looking for something strange and unique or outright bizarre the following summer festivals are sure to add joy to your summer vacation destination plans.

National Hollerin' Contest North Carolina

If you're looking for a festival to kick off your summer vacation plans where you can make strange animal calls, holler uncontrollably or just have a good laugh check out North Carolina's National Hollerin' Contest in June.

This festival was originally set up in 1969 by radio host, Ermon H. Godwin who joked about reviving the "lost art of hollerin'" by hosting a hollerin' contest. That one joke of a contest unexpectedly brought in thousands of people from all over the country.

Today thousands of people still flock to Spivey's Corner North Carolina every summer to enjoy a day of hollerin', entertainment, food and fun.

The Hollerin' Contest has been so successful that winners have been featured on the Tonight Show and Late Night with David Letterman. Popular magazines, Stars and Stripes and Sports Illustrated have covered the hilarious spectacle.

Events at the National Hollerin' Contest include The Whistlin Contest, the Fox Horn Blowin' Contest, the Junior Hollerin' contest, the Ladies Callin' Contest and the National Hollerin' contest.

You can partake in the festivities in Spivey's Corner, North Carolina the third Saturday of every June.

Moose Dropping Festival

The Moose Dropping Festival is a fundraiser for the Talkeetna Historical Society. This is not a festival in which Moose are dropped from the sky but rather a tribute to Moose poop where many of the games and activities center around the poop.

The main event at the festival is a contest in which participants buy raffle tickets and bet on the number of poop patties that will be dropped from a helicopter on to a bullseye target waiting below. Each poop patty is numbered and those numbers coincide with the raffle tickets.

Of course the Moose Dropping festival has much more to offer. There are foot races, baseball games, a parade, street vendors, and a Mountain Mama contest.