1.Cool cruiser photographed at the Red Lion Run Car Show. Photo used with kind permission of bob merco. Feature photo by taberandrew.

2. Crazy 3-D Mondrian photographed at the Art Car Fest 2006 in San Jose by L. Marie. Sort of like a Rubix Cube on wheels.

3. Customized Ford truck pictured at the Heavy Rebel Weekender, a 3 day festival in North Carolina celebrating music, bikes and cars, and featuring mud wrestling and a beer chugging contest. Photo used with kind permission of Doug Johnson.

4.An RV clowning around in a carpark in Sweden. Picture by Jeremey Burgin.

5.The safest way to use your phone whilst driving. Photo by Thomas Duchnicki.

6.Commissioned in 1909 by eccentric Calcutta millionaire Robert Nicholl Mattewson, the Swan car was hand carved from wood and covered with plaster. It has eyes that glow in the dark, a beak that sprays scalding water to clear a passage through congested streets, and it can even poo on the pavement! Photo copyright stkone. Used with permission.

7. Flashy van entirely covered with old cameras rigged to take candid pictures of people who don’t realise they work! See cameravan.com for more details. Photo by albany_tim.

8. Designed by Harrod Blank, the man behind the cameravan above, the stereo system and all the instruments on this car work and are designed to be played. So if you don’t like the music where you’re at, make your own! Photo by albany_tim.

9. Proof that customized cars can deliver an important message, this one traces the origin and significance of redheads! Photo by howieluvzus.

10.Cuasimodo is a celebration that takes place in Santiago, Chile, on the first Sunday after Easter. It commemorates a time when Chilean cowboys had to protect the priests that were travelling around giving communion to people unable to get to church. Nowadays, people decorate their bikes, horse-carriages and other vehicles, and parade around the district. Photo courtesy of Eileen Smith.

11. Scary but cute – a cheeky little monster photographed at the Art Car Fest 2006 in San Jose by L. Marie.

12. Although it may look like something out of Star Trek, this crazy beast was cruising along in South Side, New York, apparently blasting the Electric Slide out its stereo. Photo by Mike Drawback.

13.Bad-ass truck rod caught at the Goodguys southwest nationals in 2009. Photo used with kind permission of Swanee 3.

14.Eco friendly “transport pod” built from different types of wood, weighing only 450 kg and containing a 2CV engine which helps it achieve very efficient mileage. Photo by chrsoz.

15. Summer rollin’ in South Beach, Miami. Photo by Phillip Pessar.

16. If you can cruise down the street in a car like that, then you truly are beyond boundaries. Photo by James Trosh.

17. Sexy futuristic street rod shot at the Richmond Nationals, 2008. Photo used with kind permission of vaphoto1.

18.Don’t slam the door too hard, you never know what might happen! Photo taken in the West Village, New York, by See-ming Lee.

19. No car is truly complete until it has a picture on its bonnet of a half naked woman toting a revolver. Photo by saguayo.

20. Lego car parked outside a grocery store. Obviously! Photo taken by idealisms.

21.The only thing missing here is a time travel button. But, what happens if you push the question mark? Photo taken by Simon Davison.

1. Celebrating its 20th year, the festival spans 5 days with 400,000 visitors sampling 200 different dishes, making it Stockholm’s largest summer event.

2. Many independent vendors also get in on the action by setting up little stands.

3. Sweet-smelling brandied almonds.

4.Meals usually start at roughly 25 SEK ($3) and climb much higher pretty quickly. It still is Stockholm, after all.

5.Spicy meals served up by Latino & Cajun.

6.Quintessential Stockholm fashionistas in their recognizable attire…overflowing tops, leggings, flat shoes.

7.A sexier version of Sweden’s traditional outfit.

8.A patron digging into some juicy grilled Turkish kebab meat.

9.Local acts and cover bands are invited to entertain the crowd.

10.The festival is prime for people-watching as nothing unites Stockholm’s liberal residents quicker than food.

11.Pets are also welcome and act as walking garbage disposals.

12. One of several communal condiment tables.

13.Laying out tortilla chips which go well with tasty adult beverages.

14. In true eco-friendly fashion and sticking with its 2010 European Green Capital status, most, if not all, of the restaurants participating serve ecological and organic products.Here, the green sign above the menu states that the beef is organic.

15. Once patrons grab their meals, they gather beneath large tents to eat, drink, chat and rest up before going for the next round of food.

1. Daniel Nahabedian: “Home” is just a roof I can rest under temporarily. I am not attached to any place, any country or location. It is more a base where I can put my belongings and come back to rest, and abandon easily to go and discover what should be considered our true Home: Earth.

2. Sarah Menkedick: Home for me is 5 p.m. on a winter evening in Ohio. It smells sharp like woodsmoke and ice, and the light has a quiet, melancholy gentleness to it that makes you sense the whole of your life passing, so short. When I was in high school I used to stare out the back windows of our kitchen at this light in the winter and think about where I was going, about the life that lay ahead. I do the same thing now whenever I go home in December; find myself looking out the windows of my parents’ farmhouse and feeling the winter and the passing of time.

3. Slava Bowman: Home means fresh, sun-kissed, home-grown colorful veggies cut up in a delicious, mouth-watering, towering feta-topped shopska salata! Mmmm…YUM!

4. Abby Leonard: Home means sitting on a porch, watching the sun set over the Sound, enjoying the wisdom that a bottle of wine brings out in friends and family. This photo was taken in Bellingham, Washington.

5. David Miller: This photo was taken at Hot Sulphur Springs along the Colorado River. Layla was looking at deer on the mountainside. We were essentially “homeless” during this time, Summer of 09, having left Seattle and basically just camping / traveling in Colorado. And yet this feels super “at home” to me. Just being together, experiencing places that Lau and I love and can now experience again for the first time with Layla. That’s what “home” means, I think: being in love with the places you find yourself and the people there with you.

6. Rebecca Kinsella: For me, returning ‘home’ in 3 months means hanging out with my brothers and sister again after two years abroad.

7. Kendra Hoffman: Home is a faded memory: my mother’s garden lingers where I once danced with my sisters among the sunflowers, and my father’s woodshed looms behind it all. Only the winter speaks the truth: we all await rebirth.

8. Nancy Harder: Home is transitioning for us right now. Home is wherever my husband, James, and my dog, Zoey, are, which will be this house in Blacksburg, Virginia on May 30. In this pic, Zoey’s scoping out the new scene on the day we closed.

9. Elga Reyes: This is home in the Philippines – but not until recently, not until Typhoon Ketsena (known locally as Typhoon Ondoy) hit my country, my hometown, all my loved ones hard. All my life I’ve only wanted to go away, to travel and experience the world, and never had I looked back and considered point zero. I am still a wanderer but now with an anchor, or better yet a return ticket to what truly counts, my family.

10. Soultravelers3: The world means home to our family as we’ve chosen an open-ended global tour lifestyle since 2006, and raised our trilingual child as a citizen of the world. Everywhere is our home and we are related to everyone! Home is where the heart is and our heart is everywhere! Home lives inside us and is the love that guides us, and which also is constantly reflected back to us by the beautiful people we meet and places we see.

11. Debra Lane: This is me experiencing “home” while with the Dogon Tribe in Mali, Africa.

12.Lindsey T Rue: Home is a place that wraps me in comfort – where I can breathe, imagine, play and gather with good friends. I’m a perpetual traveler that changes locations with the seasons, and this photo is of my gypsy caravan parked along the banks of the Taya River, Alaska, in 2008.

13.Scott Hartman: Hiking down the Escalante River in southern Utah, looking for a camp… found this sandbar with a heart on it… home IS where the heart is!

14.Jeff Bartlett: Hailing from the oil and gas town of Fort St John, located 1200 km north of Vancouver, home has always meant two things: snow and work.

15.Tom Gates: Home means dreaming about being away. This is the top of my fridge, with a hand-sewn card from Laos and a blinding digital clock from Japan. They’re the first thing I see when I stumble towards a glass of water in the morning and I will inevitably grin when I see them, no matter how morning-grumbly I am.

1. They aren’t at their peak yet, but thanks to the right weather patterns through the fall and winter, this is supposed to be an amazing year for wildflowers.

2. Central Texas is popular among both types of bikers.

3. Texan tidbit: All species of the bluebonnet are considered to be the state flower of Texas.

4. It is best to get off the crowded highways and drive the country roads. Just be respectful of private property.

5. If you can’t find a reliable wildflower spot, you can go to a wildflower farm – where this photo was taken.

6. Stuck at home? You can watch bluebonnets bloom on the Bluebonnet Cam.

7.Wildflowers popping up among the cacti.

8. Bluebonnet festivals appear in small Texas towns all through the month of April.

9. A lot of Texan families return to the same spot every year when the wildflowers bloom again.