Visitors walk down the Bramante Staircase at The Vatican Museums, during a press tour at the Vatican on May 2, 2025. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)

A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, October 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. (Photo by John Locher/AP Photo)

Every year, participants in the Burning Man Festival descend on the playa of Nevada's Black Rock Desert to form a temporary city – a self-reliant community populated by performers, artists, free spirits, and more. Last week, an estimated 68,000 people came to Burning Man 2013 from all over the world to dance, express themselves, and take in the spectacle. Gathered below are some of the sights from the festival, which lasted a week and came to its conclusion yesterday

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A man looks at kebabs cooking on the street side in Rawalpindi, Pakistan October 2, 2017. (Photo by Caren Firouz/Reuters)

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A man looks at a figure outside a store as he walks along a street in Beijing on March 2, 2021. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)