Reuters/Alexandra BeierFinger-pulling championships are a serious sport in some parts of Germany.
Baseball may be America’s pastime, but citizens of other countries are entertaining themselves in altogether different ways.
Cultural tradition has informed a whole range of strangely fascinating sports around the world — balancing on bamboos, for example, or wrestling on horses.
While some games are unique to a particular country, others can be found in several nations in a given region.
From cheese-rolling in New Zealand to wife-carrying in Finland, here are some of the world’s wackiest games.
