Video archive.

Videos

Road trip rants, sightseeing, interviews, vintage vacation films.

Draw The Teeth

Won't you help the Father of Our Country, George Washington? A special song for Pressidents Day. [Draw The Teeth - February 16, 2025] or [Direct You Tube Link]

The Eternal Coil: A Twine Ball Tale

A timeless song of infinite longing, spun in idle hours at Roadside America HQ. [The Eternal Coil: A Twine Ball Tale - November 22, 2024] or [Direct You Tube Link]

Giants Among Us - Muffler Men (Know the Signs)

Monoliths of Myth, commercial colossi, worthy of their own musical saga. Turn on closed captions and attempt to sing along! [Giants Among Us - Know the Signs - August 8, 2024] or [Direct You Tube Link]

Bishop Castle: 30 Years Later

Jim Bishop, one-man castle builder. Our 1994 visit meshed with our 2023 check-up on progress. Astounding! [Bishop Castle: 30 Years Later - August 5, 2024]

The Lord of Paper Maps

Technology: a slippery slope into a dead signal ditch, empty gas tank, dehydration, death. But the Ancient One can guide you! [The Lord of Paper Maps - May 24, 2024]

This Exit For News (No. 3, Feb. 15, 2023)

A special 125th year anniversary tribute to civic memorials made from the salvaged wreckage of the USS Battleship Maine, sunk Feb 15, 1898. [This Exit for News No. 3 - Feb. 15, 2023]

This Exit For News (No. 2, Feb. 2, 2023)

Oddball attraction news! Monkey Island • Vulcan Hand Statue • Frozen Bats • Name That Flamingo • Elvis Furniture Has Left The Building • 75 Years of Tail: Weeki Wachee Mermaids [This Exit for News No. 2 - Feb. 2, 2023]

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Ron Lessman's Truckhenge

In 2007, Ron Lessman led the Roadside America team on a tour of Truckhenge, his playful art protest, and his other nutty creations outside Topeka, Kansas [Video Visit and Interview]

Atlas Cement Memorial Museum

Ed Pany, founder and curator of the Atlas Cement Memorial Museum, answers our cement-related questions in the self-proclaimed Cement Capital of the World — Northampton, Pennsylvania. [Video Visit and Interview]

Meet Cecil Clemons, Gatorama, Palmdale, Florida

In 1985, we chatted with an unforgettable Florida character, Gatorama's Cecil Clemons, about how things went all to hell for highway attractions, and about his nemesis: Lady Bird Johnson. [Video Interview, 2022 edit]

The Creeper Gallery

Our interview with charming artist Donna Marian, in her cozy Gothic art and haunted relic shoppe, The Creeper Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania. Is your breakfast spoon cursed? [Video Interview]

The Nutcrackers of Luverne

Roadside America's tiny peek at a jaw-dropping collection of ~5,000 nutcrackers at Luverne, MN's Rock County History Center. [Video Tribute]

Exploring the McDonald's Museum

Interviews at the site of the original fast food phenom, opened in 1940 in San Bernardino, California by Dick and Mac Mcdonald, now a museum of collected artifacts and memorabilia. [Video]

Nike Missile Site SF-88

Preserved Cold War nuclear defense installation, Nike Missile Site SF-88. Underground missile rises to greet Soviet bombers! (2020 - Mill Valley, California) [Video]

Animatronic 20 Mule Team

A hidden gem in the Twenty Mule Team Museum. But where else would you expect to find it? (2020 - Boron, California) [Video]

Ghost Parking Lot

Our clips of cars buried in asphalt in a shopping center parking lot, a 1978 SITE art installation, since demolished. (2001 - Hamden, Connecticut) [Video]

End Times Prophet House

Isaiah Henry Robertson transformed his Niagara Falls home, Prophet Isaiah's Second Coming House, into the ultimate End Times folk art roadside attraction. (2013 - Niagara Falls, New York) [Video]

Silvio And The Pig

During a personal tour of his Italian-American tribute sculpture garden, Silvio Luigi Barile told us this sad tale. (2011 - Redford, Michigan) [Video]