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Burning Man Festival

It's where Mad Max meets Woodstock. Experience the week-long, free-spirited Burning Man Festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

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Photography by Charlie Johnston/Nevada Magazine

The annual Burning Man Festival, held in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, is a week-long event described as “an experiment in community art, radical self expression and radical self reliance.” More than 60,000 free-spirited people converge on the desert to create and display some interesting works of art, including this oversized “Bummer.”

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