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Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

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I'd probably rank the international date line above sand traps, because (I think) more people have seen a sand trap in person and there's an interesting naval tradition associated with crossing it traveling west.