Tomatina

If it’s the last Wednesday in August, it’s got to be the world’s messiest festival. In Buñol, Spain – 40km (25 miles) west of Valencia – La Tomatina festival is a wild, silly, and very saucy tomato-throwing spectacle that draws 20,000 produce-pitching revelers each year. If you’ve always dreamed of throwing your, um, tomato in the ring, here’s all the information you need to squeeze the most out of this chaotic, one-of-a-kind celebration.