North Texas Pioneers Rotary Club, Dallas

Exploring a city can take a lifetime, but it is a brisk, timed challenge during The Amazing MetroQuest, an event designed in the tradition of CBS’s Amazing Race. Guided by their smartphones, duos dart through their metropolis, competing in whimsical challenges and toting packets of 10–12 clues. Each clue translates to a site the team must visit. Officials dole out prizes at the quest’s end, awarding not only the fastest teams, but also the ones with the best costumes to ensure not everyone runs in the same clearance-sale bear suit.