Erfoud, Morocco turned its October date harvest into a fair, decreed in 1940 and relaunched as an international fair in 2010.
Miles City, Montana has held the World Famous Bucking Horse Sale since 1951, and the May event now draws about 20,000 visitors a year.
Mendocino, California listed its whole village on the National Register in 1971 and froze its look by county ordinance in 1973.
In 2006 Kipling, Saskatchewan bought a house to complete a stranger’s trade from one red paper clip, then built a red paper clip fifteen feet tall.
In Oodnadatta, South Australia, a settlement of 102 people, Adam Plate painted his roadhouse pink and around 1980 coined the name Oodnadatta Track.
El Chalten, Argentina was founded by the state in 1985 to hold a contested border, and Law 27,055 named it National Capital of Trekking in 2014.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, founded in 1879 on healing water, preserved its whole Victorian downtown. It and Carroll County host 750,000+ visitors a year.
In 1991 Glendon, Alberta, a village its mayor said was dying, put up a giant pyrogy with a fork so passersby could tell what it was.
Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua rebuilt an extinct pottery tradition from broken shards, and more than 300 households now live by clay.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile sold its dry air and dark sky. INE recorded 202,843 arrivals at tourist accommodation in the comuna in 2019.
