Wild Travels
WILD TRAVELS goes off the beaten path to celebrate America's unusual festivals, unknown museums and unconventional characters. It's intelligent, funny, and a bit irreverent, spotlighting our country's quirkiest people and places.
- 2018-2024
- 4 seasons
- NETA
- Comedy, Documentary, Reality
- TV-PG
WILD TRAVELS goes off the beaten path to celebrate America's unusual festivals, unknown museums and unconventional characters. It's intelligent, funny, and a bit irreverent, spotlighting our country's quirkiest people and places.
Season 4 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 2024
Episode 1
The Running of the Tubs
Wed, Jul 24, 2024
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; stops in for an historic scrub down and 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.
Episode 2
Route 66
Fri, Aug 9, 2024 24 mins
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; and a roadside attraction called HENRY'S RABBIT RANCH; then rides along at the annual bike race/eating contest known as the TOUR DE DONUT in Staunton.
Episode 3
Chiditarod
Sat, Aug 17, 2024
Host Will Clinger attends Chicago's version 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.
Episode 4
UFO Fest
Sat, Aug 24, 2024
Host Will Clinger visits McMinnville, Oregon's UFO FEST to witness the extraterrestrial parade and 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.
Episode 5
Redneck Fishing Tournament
Sat, Aug 31, 2024
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).
Episode 6
Fur Fest
Wed, Jul 24, 2024
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 at America's only PURSE MUSEUM in Little Rock; wanders among hundreds of costumed critters at the MIDWEST FUR FEST in Chicago; and then tees off with Sister Cindy at an event called (no kidding) BEAT THE NUN.
Episode 7
Ventriloquist Convention
Wed, Jul 24, 2024
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; stares in wonder at the RANDYLAND Phantasmagoria on a Los Angeles hillside; and then sees where the bodies are not buried but frozen (in liquid nitrogen) at ALCOR CRYOGENICS in Scottsdale - Open To The Public.
Episode 8
Kinetic Sculpture Race
Sat, Sep 21, 2024
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.
Episode 9
Oddities & Curiosities Expo
Sat, Sep 28, 2024
Host Will Clinger attends the traveling ODDITIES and CURIOSITIES EXPO and encounters some truly bizarre and disturbing exhibits; samples the entertainment and menu at America's only VEGAN STRIP CLUB in Portland; takes in some target practice at MACHINE GUN AMERICA near Orlando; then ascends the UFO WATCHTOWER in Colorado to search the night sky for extraterrestrials.