California Videos
Our California road trip highlights, interviews with roadside attraction creators, clips from vintage travel shorts, and videos by Roadside America fans.
| Boron |
| Kostopoulos: First Toilet Seat
Roadside America Road Trip Archives: Outsider artist John A. Kostopoulos told us about his first toilet seat painting, before 1942's Battle of Casablanca.Go to video |
| Kostopoulos: Saddam Called Me
From the Roadside America Road Trip Archives: John A. Kostopoulos told us about a really grateful toilet portrait subject -- Saddam Hussein (1994).Go to video |
| Animatronic 20 Mule Team
There's a hidden gem in the Twenty Mule Team Museum. But where else would you expect to find it?Go to video |
| Burlingame |
| World's Biggest Dispenser of Pez
Gary Doss, curator of the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia, shows us the World's Biggest Dispenser of Pez.Go to video |
| Felicity |
| Center of the World: Be It Further Resolved
Our visit to the Center of the World triggers a special Proclamation by Mayor Istel, assisted by his wife Felicia.Go to video |
| Hesperia |
| Miles Mahan at Hulaville
Roadside America Road Trip Archives: Video snippets of Miles Mahan from 1985, and a later visit in 1994.Go to video |
| Lancaster |
| Musical Road - Oddity Odysseys
Southern California explorers Bethany and Drew play the Musical Road in Lancaster.Go to video |
| Long Beach |
| Queen Mary Reopens
Famous ocean liner permanently docked as a tourist attraction. [This Exit for News, 2023-1-12]Go to video |
| Los Angeles |
| Bronson Cave - Oddity Odysseys
Dynamic duo Bethany and Drew explore a man-made cave used in over 100 Hollywood movies and TV shows.Go to video |
| Mill Valley |
| Nike Missile Site Tour
Preserved Cold War nuclear defense installation, Nike Missile Site SF-88. Clips from 1960 Army film "The Nike-Hercules Story"Go to video |
| Nice |
| Laughing Sal Show, Clarke's Collectibles
Tipster video: Something to do with your spare quarters at Clarke's Lunch Box Museum.Go to video |
| Niland |
| Exploring Salvation Mountain
Though Leonard Knight is no longer with us, his painted mountain is still admired as a marvel of spiritual folk art (2018).Go to video |
| Oakland |
| Children's Fairyland (1950)
Ride a miniature train with a munchkin to Children's Fairyland, a colorful, crazy-angled, kid-sized theme park in Oakland, California. In the 1950s, it was a radical place.Go to video |
| San Bernardino |
| Exploring the McDonald's Museum
A Happy Meal of McD trivia and memorabilia at the original fast food phenom site, opened in 1940 by Dick and Mac McDonald, now a museum.Go to video |
| Santa Cruz |
| Who's Unnaturally Attracted to Mystery Spots?
1996 video, chatting with guide Pat Musselman, at the Mystery Spot.Go to video |
| Stockton |
| King of the Windmills
Roadside America Road Trip Archives: 1996 interview with Frank Medina, known worldwide for his windmill collection and his incredible teeth.Go to video |
| Sunol |
| Sunol Remembers Mayor Bosco
A bronze statue was unveiled in 2008, honoring America's Dog Mayor, Bosco Ramos.Go to video |
