Wild Travels

Culture Series / 1 Season

WILD TRAVELS goes off the beaten track to celebrate America's unusual festivals, little-known museums, outsider artists and unconventional characters. The Emmy® award-winning series is smart, funny, unexpected and a bit irreverent, spotlighting our country's most colorful, offbeat and quirky destinations.

The Kinetic Sculpture Race

S4 E8 / 26m 19s / TV-G

Host Will Clinger spends an entire episode chronicling the annual, KINETIC SCULPTURE RACE in Baltimore – an outrageously challenging competition among two dozen human-powered, amphibious, all-terrain mobile works of art slogging through a 15-mile course of city streets, mud, sand, and Baltimore’s inner harbor. All entries are vying for the coveted GRAND MEDIOCRE CHAMPION award.

Ventriloquist Convention

S4 E7 / 27m 27s / TV-G

Host Will Clinger feels right at home in a roomful of dummies at the VENTRILOQUISTS’ CONVENTION near Cincinnati; finds all things feline at the LUCKY CAT MUSEUM; drives out to CARHENGE - Nebraska’s answer to Stonehenge; and then sees where the bodies are not buried but frozen (in liquid nitrogen) at ALCOR CRYOGENICS in Scottsdale – Open To The Public!

Fur Fest

S4 E6 / 27m 45s / TV-G

Host Will Clinger delves into the paranormal legends surrounding EDGAR ALLAN POE as well as the historic and haunted USS CONSTELLATION in Baltimore; reaches for his wallet in America's only PURSE MUSEUM in Little Rock; wanders among hundreds of critters at the MIDWEST FUR FEST in Chicago; and then tees off with Sister Cindy at an event called (no kidding) BEAT THE NUN.

Redneck Fishing Tournament

S4 E5 / 27m 36s / TV-G

Host Will Clinger journeys hundreds of feet underground to tour the historic QUEEN COPPER MINE in Bisbee, Arizona; spends the night at the nearby bucolic SHADY DELL retro trailer park; goes nowhere but up at a WHITE MOUNTAIN HOT AIR BALLOONFEST and then tries to dodge ferocious flying carp at the annual central Illinois REDNECK FISHING TOURNAMENT (spoiler alert: he fails).

UFO Fest

S4 E4 / 27m 31s / TV-G

Host Will Clinger visits McMinnville, Oregon’s UFO FEST to witness the extraterrestrial parade & alien pet contest; examines the MUSEUM OF MENTAL HEALTH in Salem where One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest was filmed; tries not to crash in a jet simulator at the NAVAL FLIGHT ACADEMY in Pensacola; and then marvels at the huge model ships and animated “rock band” made completely out of...TOOTHPICKS!

Chi-Ditarod: Shopping Cart Race

S4 E3 / 27m 3s / TV-G

In Chicago, host Will Clinger attends the parody of the IDITAROD - the CHI-DITAROD, where the sled is a shopping cart pulled by people instead of dogs; checks in to the Watergate Hotel’s SCANDAL ROOM in DC; visits the studio of surrealist MICHAEL P PRICE in Arizona; squeezes himself into a DWARF CAR for a drive in Maricopa; and then marvels at an art exhibit made entirely out of PEEPS in Wisconsin

Route 66

S4 E2 / 26m 33s / TV-G

Host Will Clinger drives the Illinois leg of historic ROUTE 66 to find: the birthplace of the COZY DOG in Springfield; a city hall with a phone booth on its roof in LINCOLN; the land-yacht of itinerant Route 66 artist Bob Waldmire in PONTIAC; a roadside attraction called HENRY’S RABBIT RANCH; and then rides along at the annual bike race/eating contest known as the TOUR DE DONUT in Staunton.

The Running of the Tubs

S4 E1 / 26m 40s / TV-G

Host Will Clinger visits Hot Springs, Arkansas for the annual RUNNING OF THE TUBS–to watch costumed teams race bathtubs filled with water through the downtown; he stops in for a historic scrub down & steam at the BUCKSTAFF BATH HOUSE; takes in an astounding collection of 3D advertising art at the POLLACK MUSEUM in AZ; and then attempts to pick the right square at CHICKEN POOP BINGO in Austin, TX.

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