Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cultures and traditions around the globe and throughout history share a similar concept of axis mundi, the center of the world.

Have you ever wanted to burn a man? In June 1986, the founders of the Burning Man project and nonprofit, Larry Harvey and Jerry James, built a wooden human effigy and set it on fire on San Francisco’s ...

Burning Man is a counterculture community event held the last week of August each year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada that draws upwards of 70,000 people. Photo credit: MIKE NELSON/AFP Last week ...

Cultures and traditions around the globe and throughout history share a similar concept of axis mundi, the center of the world. "To the Maya it was the Ceiba tree, to the Norse Ygdrassil, to the Celts ...