Videos
Road trip highlights, sightseeing, interviews, vintage vacation films.••• B R E A K I N G • N E W S •••
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]
This Exit For News (No. 1, Jan. 2023)
Roadside America delivers short highlights, in hybrid newsreel style, from the ever-changing world of quirky tourism. Queen Mary, World's Largest Belt Buckle, Lucy the Elephant, and more! [This Exit for News No. 1 - Jan. 12, 2023]
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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]
Have You Saw The Mummies?
Our coast-to-coast Hypertour hit the farmer-made mummies at Barbour County Historical Museum. Curator James Ramsey revealed their secrets. (1994 - Philippi, West Virginia) [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]
Jack Barker's Metal Menagerie
Jack Barker showed us some of his junk art sculptures and talks about his ideas. (2011 - Essex, Illinois)
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Behn's Game Farm
Wilbert Behn in his Homemade Arena, eating fire and performing a solo routine with his semi-cooperative lions and tigers.(1991 - Aniwa, Wisconsin) [Video]
Song Of The Button King
At his Button King Museum, Dalton Stevens performed one of his self-penned ditties. (2010 - Bishopville, South Carolina) [Video]
Videos By State
And Lest We Forget...
Saddam Called Me
At least, that's what the King of Toilet Seat Arts told us. (1994 - Boron, California) [Video]
Wall Drug's Singing Sam
"The Yard" where dead animals crudely danced, and a rotting gorilla plays the piano. (1992 - Wall, South Dakota) [Video]
King of the Windmills
King of the Windmills - Frank Medina, known worldwide for his windmill collection and his incredible teeth. (1996 - Stockton, California) [Video]
