Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations
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All 12 DVDs
The whole shebang! All 12 seasons on 12 DVDs—72 episodes (or over 36 hours of video madness)! Almost 600 people, places and things...however you slice it, it’s crazy! Just think about how much you’ll save in gas money. And you can stop whenever you want—you won’t have to wait until Randy pulls over (much easier on you than it is on Don).
$159.95
Coast-to-Coast Travel-o-Pedia (the book) 
Since 1995, Randy Mason, Mike Murphy and Don "The Camera Guy" Mayberger have rolled across America in a minivan, exploring the road less traveled for Public TV. With their own World's Largest Ball of Videotape in tow, they've searched high and low for grassroots artists and offbeat attractions, i.e. "Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations."
This handy, fit-in-the-glovebox Travel-o-Pedia is a compilation of stories and listings about hundreds of their favorite artists, sights and even eateries in one colorful, comprehensive compendium. With no annoying narration to gum up the works!
$24.95
 Back to the Breadbasket DVD
(Season 9 – 2004)
In these six half-hour shows produced for Kansas City Public Television, you’ll meet creative Kansans like sign maker M.T. Liggett, castle builder Don Kracht and rock gardener Dan Beck. On the Missouri side, there’s Bob Smithy’s sculptures and barbecue in a cave. In Iowa, gaze at a great grotto and Dick Kopp’s Planet Garbage. Texas has terrific stuff too, like Houston’s Art Car Parade, Ed Clark’s Christmas House and the Toilet Seat Art Museum!
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
Calizona Here We Come!
(Season 11 - 2006)
In these six half-hour shows, produced for Kansas City Public Television, you'll roll down the coast and through the desert to meet self-taught artists and see some amazing sights. Like Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain near Niland, California, the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno, and the legendary Watts Towers in LA. On the Arizona side of the line, step into Jerry Hall's World of Imagination, the Sunnyslope Rock Garden and Bisbee's retro-riffic Shady Dell Trailer Court. Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
Deserts & Canyons & Vegas, Oh My!
(Season 12 - 2008)
The road less traveled is full of grit—with stops in Texas for Robert Bruno’s Steel House, Casa de Azucar, Cascada de la Piedra Pinta and Ran Horn’s Van Gogh Gallery. Then through Roswell, Albuquerque and the Navajo lands of New Mexico, on to Eliphante in Arizona, and finally to Nevada, for the House of Hammargren, Guru Lane and Thunder Mountain, to name but a few.
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
Eastern Weaseling DVD
(Season 7 - 2002)
In these six half-hour shows produced for Kansas City Public Television, you’ll zip through the hills of Kentucky and North Carolina, which great grassroots artists like Minnie Adkins, Clyde Jones, Sam the Dot Man and Vollis Simpson call home. Meet Robert Howell and John Anderson in Virginia, then head to Baltimore for an encounter with Paul “The Glassman” Darmafall and a tour of the incredible American Visionary Art Museum.
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
Miles & Miles o’ Mo-Tex-Arkana
(Parts of seasons 2, 3, 4, 6 – 1996-2001)
In these six half-hour shows produced for Kansas City Public Television, you’ll discover an amazing array of self-taught artists, like guitar maker Ed Stilley, painter Robert E. Smith and sculptor Charles Stagg. Also, explore such roadworthy sights as the Orange Show and Beer Can House in Houston, Larry Baggett’s Trail of Tears Monument near Rolla, Missouri, and Quigley’s Castle in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
Neighborly Northerners DVD
(Parts of seasons 2, 3, 5, 6 – 1996-1999)
In these six half-hour shows produced for Kansas City Public Television, you’ll pass by the upper Midwest’s most awesome oddities: the Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend, Iowa; Carhenge; in the Sand Hills of Nebraska; Wyoming’s Fossil House; and North Dakota’s Enchanted Highway. Also meet fun folks like Loi Vo, Dan Slaughter, Tim Anderson and Judy Onofrio, making art with everything from bumpers to beads.
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video! $19.95
Next Stop New England DVD
(Season 8 – 2003)
In these six half-hour shows produced for Kansas City Public Television, you’ll see oddities of Ohio like the Loveland Castle, meet artists like Mr. Imagination in Pennsylvania, and walk the grounds of Luna Parc in New Jersey. Vermont brings the joys of Gayleen Aiken, Maine the lure of the Looney Lagoon and Massachusetts, the world-renowned Paper House.
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
No Rest in the Northwest
(Season 11- 2006)
In theses six half-hour shows produced for Kansas City Public Television, you’ll roll over the Rockies and to the woods. See the Gilgal Sculpture Garden in Utah, Cleo’s Ferry Museum in Idaho, Portland Oregon’s
Velveteria and the Walker Rock Gardens in Seattle. Meet self-taught California artists like Ernie Fosselius, Dr. Ken Fox and Patrick Amiot, plus much, much more.
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
Peaches, Beaches, Gators & Grits DVD
(Season 10 - 2005)
In these six half-hour shows produced for Kansas City Public Television, you’ll cover some serious ground in search of art and oddities like Bucketman and Millennium Manor in Tennessee, plus Georgians like Ab the Flagman, Lorenzo Scott, Tom Haney and Joni Mabe. South Carolina is home to Pearl Fryer, William Thomas Thompson, the UFO Welcome Center and The Button King. And finally, Florida yields such gems as the Coral Castle, Purvis Young, Kurt Zimmerman, Ruby Williams’ Fruit Stand, Taft Richardson and Missionary Mary Proctor.
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
Prowlin’ the Prairie DVD
(Parts of seasons 2, 3, 4, 5 – 1997-2000)
In these six half-hour shows produced for Kansas City Public Television, you’ll discover why the Sunflower State is a grassroots art mecca. The road also leads to Colorado for Bishop’s Castle, to Oklahoma for Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park, and to New Mexico’s ultimate roadside attraction, Tinkertown.
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
Southern Flavor DVD
(Parts of seasons 4, 6 – 1999-2001)
In these six half-hour shows produced for Kansas City Public Television, you’ll encounter some of the South’s most talented and renowned self-taught artists. You’ll meet Howard Finster, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Butch Anthony and St. EOM—plus such stellar examples of roadside Americana as Kentucky’s Wigwam Village and the World’s Largest Cast Iron Sculpture in Birmingham, Alabama.
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
Takin’ it to the Lakes DVD
(Parts of seasons 3, 4, 5, 6 – 1996-1999)
In these six half-hour shows produced for Kansas City Public Television, you’ll see such marvels of Michigan as the Heidelberg Project and Silvio’s Pizzeria—plus Wisconsin wonders like Rudy Rotter, Fred Smith’s Concrete Park, Dr. Evermor’s Forevertron, Tony’s Fan Fair and the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum. Illinois has visionary artists too, from Charles Smith’s African-American History Yard to Rockome Gardens to the totem poles carved by D. Bill.
Contains 6 complete episodes, outtakes, special bonus material, and a snappy music video!
$19.95
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