Video archive.

Videos

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

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Ask An Expert!: Presidential Grave Hunter

Roadside America's Q and A with photographer-writer Tim O'Brien, a former Ripley's employee, amusement park trade magazine editor, and widely traveled nice guy with an eye for whimsy. [Ask An Expert #3 - May 9, 2023]

Meet The Real Cocaine Bear!

The legend. The nightmare. Cocaine Bear expert Griffin VanMeter sorts out fact from fiction. Lexington, Kentucky [Video Interview]

Ask An Expert!: Presidential Grave Hunter

Frequent Roadside America contributor Kurt Deion talks about his passion -- since the age of 7 -- for visiting dead presidents, and provides tips for your own pilgrimages. [Ask An Expert #1 - Feb. 20, 2023]

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]

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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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]