The Burning Man Festival

Thousands of people gather each summer in the Nevada desert to erect and burn a 40-foot tall human effigy. A temporary city rises from the dust and 100-degree heat, and a sort of anarchist society emerges. Festivalgoers strut naked, dance in the mud, create theatrical 'Theme Camps,' invent religions, shoot automatic weapons at stuffed animals, or whatever else they don't get enough of at home.