101 Crazy Bucket List Ideas for Adrenaline Seekers

We love a good bucket list. In our opinion, everyone should make a list of crazy bucket list ideas to try at least once in their lifetime. The goal with these crazy ideas for a bucket list is to give you a ton of inspiration so you can pick and choose the ones that resonate with you to come up with your own adventurous bucket list!

We’ve created so many bucket lists over the years, most of which are generally based around travel. From destination bucket lists, to our very-popular Ultimate Travel Bucket List! They are the ultimate travel inspiration tool! (We’ve also got a few bucket lists for you to download at the end of this article).

If you’ve landed on this page looking for some inspiration, then we’ve got you sorted. We’ve done a little brainstorming to come up with some fun, adrenaline-packed, and a few totally insane bucket list ideas. We’ve managed to tick off quite a few, but there are some we are still yet to try (and even a few that are beyond our capability)!

From the extreme to the downright wacky, here are 101 bucket list ideas for the crazy and seriously adventurous at heart! Let’s dive right in…

These crazy bucket list ideas are sure to get you out of your comfort zone!

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101 Crazy Ideas for a Bucket List

Adrenaline Bucket List Ideas

Are you an adrenaline junkie? Or perhaps you just love the thrill of trying something you wouldn’t normally dare to do. The following adrenaline-packed bucket list ideas are not overly extreme (you’ll find those are further down the list). But they are sure to get your heart pumping!

Here are some ideas to add to your adrenaline bucket list that will most certainly get you out of your comfort zone:

1. Go ski touring in Norway or Austria
2. Go whitewater rafting on the heart-stopping Zambezi River in Zimbabwe
3. Try canyoning and rappel down a waterfall
4. Try a hydrofoil surfboard on the Gold Coast, Australia
5. Descend into an ice cave in Iceland
6. Go dune bashing on an ATV in the desert – Dubai & Abu Dhabi has the best sand dunes!
7. Plunge into the ocean in a submarine
8. Try Heli-skiing or boarding down a glacier in New Zealand
9. Take a polar plunge in Norway, Finland or Antarctica!
10. See a live volcanic eruption (there’s one erupting in Iceland right now!)
11. Try zorbing – there are plenty of places around the world but the original one is in Rotorua, New Zealand
12. Learn how to surf (and stand up!)
13. Drive a race car around a Formula One track
14. Descend inside a volcano
15. Go diving inside a shipwreck (or plane wreck)
16. Try a sub-wing – hanging onto two wings underwater while a boat tows you!
17. Learn how to free dive in Mexico, or Dahab, Egypt
18. Try fly-boarding
19. Go mountain biking down Bolivia’s Death Road
20. Try volcano boarding in León, Nicaragua
21. Try freshwater cave diving in the cenotes of Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
22. See a glacier calving in Ilulissat, Greenland
23. Try para-gliding
24. Experience Via Ferrata in the Italian or Swiss Alps
25. Try glacier hiking on Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand
26. Have dinner in the sky
27. Try flow-boarding (riding a stationary wave) in Munich, Germany
28. Go sandboarding in Huacachina, Peru
29. Try jet boating in Queenstown, New Zealand
30. Go kite-surfing in Hawaii
31. Try bouldering in Golden, Colorado or Squamish, B.C. (or just about anywhere really!)
32. Experience a canyon swing in Queenstown, New Zealand

Crazy Bucket List Ideas involving Heights

Wanting to conquer your fear of heights? Or maybe you just love the thrill of jumping off a tall building or out of a plane. Here are some crazy ideas for a bucket list that will absolutely get the adrenaline pumping! 

1. Go heli-skiing
2. Learn to fly a plane 
3. Go cliff jumping in Hawaii or various locations along the Mediterranean
4. Go bungee jumping off Macau Tower, Kawarau Bridge in NZ, or Victoria Falls in Zambia
5. Rappel down a waterfall
6. Try out acrobatics
7. Try ice climbing in Canada, Alaska or Colorado
8. Take a sunrise hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia, Turkey
9. Go skydiving – you can do this anywhere, but over The Palm in Dubai offers the best view!
10. Climb an active volcano 
11. Go zip-lining through the jungle in Costa Rica, or the world longest in Sun City, South Africa
12. Try snowmobiling (just about any place where there is snow!)

Extreme Bucket List Ideas

Looking for something a little more out there? Here’s a small list of the most extreme bucket list ideas in the world that are only for the most adventurous (and experinced) at heart. 

Word of Warning: These are the craziest bucket list ideas we could think of, and some can get very risky and generally require a high level of skill and years of training. Unfortunately, because of this, we have never actually done any of these activities ourselves, as they are well beyond our physical capabilties (and more than our stomachs could handle)! So, it has to be mentioned that if you decide to partake in any of these extreme bucket list ideas, you do so entirely at your own risk!

1. Climb an Eight-Thousander, or all 14 of them (i.e. the 14 peaks in the world above 8000 feet high)
2. Experience a wingsuit flight 
3. Go cliff diving
4. Do a marathon (or an Ironman)
5. Go base-jumping
6. Try free climbing or free soloing (rock climbing without ropes)
7. Climb the highest summit on each continent 
8. Try wing walking
9. Go highlining (walking a high-line between two cliffs)
10. Take a flight into space
11. Try parkouring (climbing, running and jumping between building structure, rails and huge gaps)

Crazy Bucket List Ideas with Animals

Love animals? So do we. Some of our favourite adventurous bucket list ideas involve getting up close and personal with wild animals (in a safe way, of course).

Word of Warning: We love ticking off bucket list items just as much as we love animals. So, we strongly encourage you to ensure these activities at carried out in a humane way before participating in them. And always remember that wild animals can be unpredictable.

1. See a herd of elephants in the wild
2. Ride a camel through the Sahara
3. See a tiger in the wild
4. Go diving with Great White Sharks
5. Swim with crocodiles in Darwin, Australia
6. Go gorilla trekking in Uganda
7. Swim with dolphins in the wild
8. Go dog sledding in Finland or Norway
9. Swim with humpback whales 
10. Cosy up to penguins in Antarctica 
11. Hang out with wild orangutans in Malaysia 
12. Swim with whale sharks
13. See a polar bear in the wild
14. Diving with manta rays

Adventurous Bucket List Ideas involving Travel

Most adventurous bucket list ideas involve travel of some kind. And because Bucket List Seekers is a couple travel bucket list blog, this list of crazy bucket list ideas would not be complete without throwing in a few once-in-a-lifetime travel experiences involving a plane ride to someplace new. 

We’ve got bucket lists for epic destinations like Hawaii, Iceland, Italy, Bali, and more. But out of all our travels, these are the adventure travel bucket list ideas that we recommend the most (plus we’ve included a few that we cannot wait to tick off our own travel bucket list!):

1. Spend a night in the Ice Hotel
2. Take a mystery flight to somewhere random
3. Visit every country in the world
4. Swim to the edge of Victoria Falls
5. Stand on the North Pole
6. Stand on the South Pole
7. Stand at the top of the Burj Khalifa (the tallest building in the world)
8. Hike Mount Hua in China – the world’s most dangerous hike!
9. Go camping in Antarctica 
10. Fly somewhere in First Class
11. Mountain bike along Death Road in Bolivia
12. Ride in a helicopter over the Great Barrier Reef
13. Eat at the underwater restaurant in the Maldives
14. Stay in an overwater bungalow in Bora Bora
15. Sail around the world 
16. Attend La Tomatina in Spain
17. Join the Songkran water fight in Thailand
18. Visit all 7 wonders of the world 
19. Dive between two continents in Iceland
20. Attend a Burning Man festival 
21. Trek the Kokoda trail
22. See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
23. See the Southern Lights (Aurora Australis)
24. Try a giant swing in the jungles of Bali
25. Wear an animal onesie around Tokyo for a day
26. Visit the DMZ
27. Travel solo to a foreign country
28. Go the Holi Festival of Colours in India
29. Road trip around Australia
30. Hike to Everest Base Camp
31. Visit all 7 continents

Feeling inspired? Here are 10 amazing destinations you must add to your Travel Bucket List!

Other Adventure Bucket List Ideas

While the following crazy bucket list ideas are not based around travel, or extreme activities, they are a list of things to achieve in your life that is still considered a little ‘crazy’ or ‘unattainable’ by most people’s standards. Basically, we felt that this list of adventure bucket list ideas just wouldn’t be complete without including these:

1. Learn another language
2. Go skinny dipping
3. Compete in an Olympic Games
4. Get your name into the Guinness Book of World Records
5. Host a murder mystery party 
6. Sleep under the stars
7. Get scuba certified
8. Say ‘YES’ to everything for a day
9. Join a flash mob
10. Move to another country
11. Experience a silent disco
12. Try SUP yoga
13. Sleep in an igloo
14. Spend a night in a castle
15. Get a tattoo
16. Write a book
17. Quit your job 
18. Live debt free!

How many of these crazy bucket list ideas can you tick off?

Have we missed something? Can you recommend any other crazy ideas for a bucket list to our readers? Leave your recommendations in the comments below!

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