World's Most Outrageous Christmas-Light Displays

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From a techno-Nutcracker extravaganza in Australia to a Jersey Shore-style California spread, WATCH VIDEO of the wildest music-synchronized holiday decorations we could find.

Upping 'Amazing Grace's Game

Utah resident Richard Holdman started small for his holiday decorations. “My wife said, ‘Let’s put up some Christmas lights on the house.’ So I put up some and every year, it gets more and more and pretty soon it turned into this,” he told his local CBS news station. Holdman has used his miraculous displays for the past four years to raise money for the Make-A-Wish foundation. Cars line up along the Holdman's street, and those in the giving spirit drop money into donation boxes to spread joy and help raise thousands of dollars for the foundation. In 2007, Holdman’s synchronized decorations featuring Yule’s "Amazing Grace" made the rounds, even reaching The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Ohio Gets Lit

When a fan of Carson Williams’ Mason, Ohio, home posted a video of his 2004 display on YouTube, he never expected it to reach nearly 8 million viewers. The electrical engineer arranged an astounding 25,000 lights to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s "Wizards in Winter," and his efforts did not go unnoticed. Miller Lite featured his display in a 2005 beer commercial for the holiday season with the slogan “Enjoy the Lites.”

Christmas at the Club

If the cast of Jersey Shore were to take the time to do something  for the holidays besides smush, take shots, and fist-pump, we’d imagine they’d come up with something like this—a miraculous light display set to the 2000 trance music track "Sandstorm" by DJ Darude. One home in Chino, California—made famous by the TV show The OC, which touted it as a wrong-side-of-tracks town—used the song for their 2008 Christmas display, turning the house various monochromatic shades before becoming multicolored madness at the chorus. The show, which the homeowners dubbed “Christmas Lights Gone Wild,” was replicated by dance-music fans everywhere. But here we have the original home that used "Sandstorm" for clubby Christmas light display in 2006.