150 Seriously Crazy Bucket List Ideas [Crazy Things to Do in 2023]

Looking for some crazy bucket list ideas? I hope this post helps!

Bucket list items don’t HAVE to be wild or extravagant.

But life is short!

And occasionally, you’ll get a wake-up call that makes you want to throw caution to the wind and do something risky, memorable, or wild.

That’s why I’ve put together this post full of crazy bucket list ideas.

With a long list crazy things to do to draw inspiration from, I hope it’ll help anyone in this situation. Sound good?

Check out these 150 crazy things for a bucket list.

[Last updated: April 2023]

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150 Crazy Bucket List Ideas

A word of warning: many of these crazy things to put on your bucket list are crazy in a “you could actually die” kind of way.

So, if you do decide to try any of them, make sure you know the risks, take sensible precautions, and seek professional guidance first!

Bucket List Ideas: Crazy & Adrenaline Fuelled

1. Do a skydive

2. Do a bungee jump

3. Do a base jump

4. Go free climbing (or free soloing for even more of a buzz)

5. Go high wiring (like slack lining, but up high!)

6. Do a wing walk!

7. Go paragliding

8. Go heli-skiing

9. Fly like a bird in a wingsuit

10. Go cliff jumping/diving

11. Try extreme hiking (check out Mount Hua in China to see what I mean!)

12. Try street luging

13. Go ski jumping

14. Try your hand at free diving

15. Do some aerobatics flying or gliding

16. Take a ride on a microlight

17. Try speed skiing

18. Get behind the wheel of a rally car

19. Ride a bobsleigh

20. Go extreme kayaking

Want some crazy fun bucket list ideas that include travel? This section should help…

Crazy Bucket List: Travel Ideas

21. Run with the bulls in Spain

22. Thru-hike across the country

23. Run across the country!

24. Go volcano boarding

25. Do some survival training

26. Do a long-distance cycle ride

27. Go jet-boating

28. Harness your inner Aquaman and go fly-boarding

29. Sail around the world

30. Go deep-sea scuba-diving

31. Drive 200kph down a German autobahn

32. Go on a caving adventure deep underground

33. Go to space!

34. Go on a zero-gravity flight

35. Pan for gold in an exotic goldmining destination

36. Ride the world’s tallest rollercoaster (Six Flags Great Adventure, New Jersey)

37. Try canyoning and coasteering

38. Visit all 7 wonders of the world

39. Set foot on all 7 continents

40. Go hunting for the Northern Lights

Next up: 20 wild bucket list ideas involving animal encounters!

Wild Bucket List Ideas with Animals

41. Swim with great white sharks (bonus points if you get out of the cage!)

42. Ride a bull at the rodeo

43. Ride a camel through the desert

44. Get up close and personal with snakes or tarantulas

45. Get in a “cage of death” and swim with saltwater crocs

46. See a tiger in the wild

47. Go on safari in Africa

48. Hang out with wild orangutans in Malaysia

49. Learn to ride horses bareback

50. Go dog sledding in Alaska or Scandinavia

51. See real-life reindeer in the Arctic tundra

52. Go gorilla trekking in Uganda

53. Swim with sea turtles in Costa Rica

54. See wild Asian elephants in Sri Lanka

55. Snorkel with whales (and sharks) on the Great Barrier Reef

56. Get up close and personal with penguins in Antarctica

57. Take a falconry class

58. Feed pelicans in Australia

59. Croon over Komodo dragons in Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands

60. Follow in Darwin’s footsteps on the Galapagos Islands

Crazy things to do in life don’t get much crazier (or more dangerous) than storm chasing!

Crazy Things to Do Before You Die Involving Mother Nature

61. Go storm chasing

62. Surf some mega waves

63. Go winter/ice swimming

64. Live alone in the wild for a week

65. Go big wall “vertical camping” (AKA extreme bivouacking)

66. Climb Mount Everest

67. Set foot on a glacier

68. Go searching for real-life dinosaur footprints

69. Witness a “dirty thunderstorm” (i.e. a lightning storm over a volcano!)

70. Swim in the cenotes of Mexico (i.e. stunning underground natural springs)

71. Witness phosphorescence

72. Play with perspective on the Bolivian Salt Flats

73. See the multi-coloured mountains of the Zhangye Danxia Landform, China

74. Step into Avatar in the Wulingyuan Scenic Area, China

75. Bathe in the ultimate natural infinity pools at Pamukkale, Turkey

76. Explore an ice cave

77. Float down subterranean rivers are stare up at glow worms in New Zealand

78. Go see the mighty redwoods in California

79. Take a sand-board down giant sand dunes

80. Witness a solar and lunar eclipse

Here are 20 crazy things to do before you die that involve a personal challenge.

Crazy Fun Bucket List Ideas for a Personal Challenge

81. Go without sleep for 48 hours

82. Do a fire walk!

83. Sell all your stuff

84. Quit your job, pack a backpack, and travel the world

85. Run an ultramarathon

86. Rappel from the top of a tall building

87. Get a tattoo

88. Do something that scares you every day for a week

89. Become a black belt in a martial art

90. Do an Ironman

91. Buy a motorbike and take an epic cross-country trip

92. Go vegan!

93. Run around the world

94. Learn to hold your breath for 5 minutes

95. Try a psychedelic

96. Go on an ayahuasca retreat

97. Build yourself a house

98. Sleep outside in the garden for a month

99. Have a one night stand

100. Be the model for a life drawing class

The craziest bucket list ideas often involve other people! Here are 20 such ideas to wrap up this post. — The craziest bucket list ideas often involve other people! Here are 20 such ideas.

Crazy things To Do in Life Involving Relationships

101. Respond to a random personal ad

102. Get married in Vegas

103. Reconnect with your first love

104. Reach out to your childhood best friend

105. Take a spontaneous weekend trip with your partner

106. Correspond with a celebrity

107. Explore the neighbourhood you grew up in

108. Reach out to a long lost relative

109. Host a huge family reunion

110. Invite everyone you know to your house for dinner

111. Help out a homeless person in your area

112. Start a community garden

113. Take a deep dive into your family history

114. Write letters to loved ones telling them what they mean to you

115. Snog a stranger!

116. Get your best friend to organize a blind date for you

117. Go speed-dating

118. Swipe right to everyone on Tinder and meet up with whoever you match with first

119. Date someone twice your age

120. Give an impromptu speech at a friend’s wedding

Still hunting for crazy things to do? I’m going to wrap up this post with a random assortment of 30 additional crazy bucket list ideas.

More Crazy Things To Do In Life: 30 Miscellaneous Ideas

121. Swim with wild dolphins or manta rays in the open ocean

122. Try to beat a world record of some kind

123. Sleep in a haunted house with your friends

124. Participate in a high-speed car chase (preferably around a track with a professional driver!)

125. Compete in a high-speed downhill mountain bike race

126. Row across an ocean solo

127. Do the Badwater ultramarathon across Death Valley (AKA, the world’s toughest foot race.”

128. Go cave diving

129. Attempt an unsupported solo trek to the North Pole

130. Learn to ride a unicycle

131. Learn how to do fire eating

132. Cross the Australian outback on a camel

133. Participate in an extreme obstacle race, like a Spartan Race

134. Abseil into a giant cave, like the Cave of Swallows in Mexico

135. Go on a 4×4 off-roading adventure

136. Try your hand at ice-climbing

137. Do a long-distance swim across a large body of water

138. Try living a primitive life outdoors for a week

139. Compete in an eating contest

140. Attempt to circumnavigate the globe using only human-powered transportation (e.g., walking, biking, rowing, and running)

141. See how far you can hitchhike from your house in a given time-frame

142. Walk around the world like Tom Turcich

143. Apply to and get on a TV show

144. Get a pet snake

145. Speed learn a new skill and enter a competition

146. Find a cheap household item and keep trading up until you get a house like this guy did years ago

147. Hitchhike across an ocean on a cargo ship

148. Paddleboard from one end of a river to another

149. Go extreme white water rafting

150. Take an ice bath or do a cold plunge every morning

Time to Go Bucket List Crazy

Have you been looking for a list of crazy things to do?

Well, I hope this post has helped!

With 150 crazy bucket list ideas on it, there should be something here to sink your teeth into that invites a bit of derring-do into your life.

Got any more bucket list crazy ideas for me to add? Drop a comment below to let me know!