Pack Your Bags! These Are the 8 Best Spots to Celebrate the Winter Solstice

On the evening of the solstice, more than 20,000 people — a combination of marchers and spectators — gather in Brighton to mark the end of the year and the passage of time. Called the Burning of the Clocks, paraders make their own paper and willow lanterns and march through the streets before finally casting them into a huge bonfire on Brighton Beach.