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Oregon Holds Pumpkin Regatta, World Shrugs in Delight

In Oregon, folks carve out the insides of 1,000-pound pumpkins, climb in, and race them across a lake. Because of course they do. Tualatin’s pumpkin regatta has been a thing since 2004, and it’s still making a splash, literally and figuratively. Think of it as competitive gourd boating, with fewer rules and more soggy costumes. It’s part fall festival, part floating fever dream. Somewhere, a squash farmer is proud. Or deeply confused.

For his 50th birthday, German businessman Michael Froehlich didn’t buy a sports car, he bought 50. All vintage. All from 1950. Then he parked them in the woods and let nature do its thing. The result: a hauntingly photogenic automotive graveyard that’s equal parts art installation and tetanus waiting to happen. It’s been 25 years, and yes, they’re still there. Still rusting. Still oddly beautiful.

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