With raves sprouting out all over a four-square-mile instant city, you need a bike at Burning Man - a trashy bike with a scary scorpion tail. The desert is so barren that no vegetation or insects exist there, and so flat and endless that you can see the curvature of the earth. Chris Columbus could have saved himself a lot of time if he had gone to Burning Man.

HECTOR MATA /AFP

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