California Videos
Our California road trip highlights, interviews with roadside attraction creators, clips from vintage travel shorts, and videos by Roadside America fans.
Auburn | Southwest Family Road Trip A family never stops moving (except when they're home), shuffling by familiar sights in California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. | ![]() |
Boron | Kostopoulos: First Toilet Seat From the Roadside Archives: John A. Kostopoulos told us in 1994 about his very first toilet seat painting before WW2's Battle of Casablanca in 1942. | ![]() |
Boron | Kostopoulos: Saddam Called Me From the RoadsideAmerica.com Archives: John A. Kostopoulos told us about a really grateful toilet portrait subject -- Saddam Hussein (1994). | ![]() |
Boron | Animatronic 20 Mule Team Short video revealing a hidden gem in the Twenty Mule Team Museum. But where else would you expect to find it? | ![]() |
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. | ![]() |
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. | ![]() |
Hayward | Muffler Men: American Giants Ep. 11 The AG team interviews Bruce Kennedy about his Hayward, CA collection, and get to use his skylift for intimate video portraits. | ![]() |
Hesperia | Miles Mahan at Hulaville From the RoadsideAmerica.com Archives: Video snippets of Miles Mahan from 1985, and a later visit in 1994. | ![]() |
Lancaster | Musical Road - Oddity Odysseys Southern California explorers Bethany and Drew play the Musical Road in Lancaster. | ![]() |
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. | ![]() |
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" | ![]() |
Nice | Laughing Sal Show, Clarke's Collectibles Tipster video: Something to do with your spare quarters at Clarke's Lunch Box Museum. | ![]() |
Niland | Exploring Salvation Mountain Though Leonard Knight departed in 2014, his painted mountain (and empty paint cans) remains as a marvel of spiritual folk art. | ![]() |
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. | ![]() |
San Bernardino | Exploring the McDonald's Museum Interviews at the site of the original fast food phenom, opened in 1940 by Dick and Mac Mcdonald, now a museum of collected artifacts and memorabilia. | ![]() |
Santa Cruz | Who's Unnaturally Attracted to Mystery Spots? 1996 video, with knowledgeable guide Pat Musselman, at the Mystery Spot. | ![]() |
Stockton | King of the Windmills From the RoadsideAmerica.com Archives: 1996 interview with Frank Medina, known worldwide for his windmill collection and his incredible teeth. | ![]() |
Sunol | Sunol Remembers Mayor Bosco A statue is unveiled honoring America's Dog Mayor, Bosco Ramos. (2008) | ![]() |