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So your mom joined Facebook, your dad's on Twitter, and last week your grandma showed you the pictures she took while bungee jumping on vacation. Know what we think? (Apart from the fact that you should probably untag yourself in a couple of those jello shot photos before your mom discovers your wall, we mean?)

Well, it might be time to get a little wackier with your vacation activities. You want grandma's bungee jump to be the most interesting travel story you've ever heard? We thought not. Here are a couple of ideas to get you started:

1. Swim with pigs in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas

Swimming with dolphins? You can go one better! Visit the paddling porcines in Big Major Cay and jump in for a dip if you're brave enough. They won't bite---well, as long as you don't whisper "BLT" within earshot.

2. Go Zorbing in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee


Like the sound of rolling down a hill in a large inflatable globe? Zorbing may just be your cup of tea. Probably best not to drink a cup of tea beforehand, though: doesn't look like there are any bathrooms in those things.

3. Pretend you're living in an episode of The Flintstones in Custer, South Dakota

If you've long harbored a fantasy to live like Barney Rubble, your childhood dreams could come true at Bedrock City, a theme park (and campsite!) where attractions include a "Slideasaurus," the Flintmobile, and as many Brontoburgers as you can stuff in your mouth.

4. Carry your wife around in Sonkäjarvi, Finland


When we say "carry your wife around," we literally do mean "carry your wife around"; the Finns hold major wife-carrying tournaments every year, during which male competitors race through obstacle courses while carrying a woman on their back. And if you're the wife in question, may we recommend going for a simple piggyback? It's got to beat the pants off the "Estonian lift," in which the woman hangs upside down with her legs around her husband's shoulders.

5. Run down a hill after some cheese in Gloucester, England


Now, we like a nice bit of Brie too, but I'm not sure we'd chase a wheel of it down an incredibly steep hill. Well, unless we were entering the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake, during which a wheel of cheese---Double Gloucester, of course---is tossed down the hill for competitors to race after it. First one to the bottom wins the cheese! (Last one is, presumably, a rotten wedge of Camembert.)

6. Drive a Trabi around Berlin


If your stick-driving skills are up to par, you too could pioneer a Trabi---once the most popular car in East Germany---through the streets of Berlin while being coached via walkie-talkie by your guide in the Trabi in front. Forget seeing the city from your boring old rented VW Jetta; this is far more fun.

7. Sing your heart out at a karaoke capsule in Bangkok


Sometimes you're in the mood to do karaoke, you're just not in the mood to do it....you know, in front of people. Enter the karaoke capsule, widely found in malls across Bangkok (and many other parts of Asia.) Get in, sit down, and sing your little heart out. Don't mind us, we'll just be standing over here by the Gap, giggling at you.

8. Thump a watermelon in Luling, Texas


Nope, that's not a euphemism. Not at the annual Luling Watermelon Thump, anyway, where attractions include a seed-spitting contest and a melon eating competition. Ah, summer!

9. Hike the Great Wall of China


Ask around in Beijing and you'll find any number of tour companies who'll drop you at the section of the Wall known as Jingshaling and pick you up again---four and a half hours later---at the part known as Simatai. For the intervening time, you're on your own: well, you and the half-dozen postcard vendors who'll track you down, follow you for miles, and try to sell you a bottle of water. (Our advice? Buy one. Heck, buy as many as you can. The hike is hot, sticky, precarious, and full of things like rubbly inclines and rickety rope bridges. But it's a blast!)

10. Get captured by pirates off the Somali coast


Not that we advise doing this, of course. Apparently, sometimes you really can have more money than sense...

11. Fire a pumpkin through a cannon near Bridgeville, Delaware


Sure, the World's Biggest Tomato Fight in Valencia is fun, but wouldn't you rather get splattered with bits of pumpkin, rather than bits of tomato, if given a choice? No? Just us then? Regardless, head to the annual Punkin Chunkin a little closer to home and watch as pumpkins are hurled through the air with slingshots, catapults, and air cannons. Doesn't get much more awesome than that, my friends.