In this episode: Three towns with really unfortunate names find there's strength in pairing up as city siblings. Considering how many "authentic" recreations of the Globe Theater there are, how come no one knows what the original looked like? --------- Subscribe: https://podfollow.com/1468333563  Written & produced by @SpudHilton Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bizarretraveler   Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/bizarretraveler/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BizarreTraveler 

In this episode: Statue in Portland should be called "Attack of the 50-foot Woman's Lawyers"! If it's hard to believe there are ATMs in Antarctica, imagine being the guy who has to fix them! Italian guy misplaces his car during Oktoberfest — for more than a month! --------- Subscribe: https://podfollow.com/1468333563 Written & produced by @SpudHilton Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bizarretraveler Instagram:...

In this episode: Cold War space-race history finds a home in the Heartland at Cosmosphere museum in Kansas! EasyJet calls 6-year-old girl's stuffed bear "excess baggage." A Disneyland guest sues after being stuck on the "It's a Small World" ride — and wins! --------- Subscribe: https://podfollow.com/1468333563  Written & produced by @SpudHilton Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bizarretraveler   Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/bizarretraveler/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BizarreTra

In this episode: Actor make highway history! Archaeologists in Egypt find a brewery that predates Stonehenge! Air New Zealand gets 'brand ambassadors' to use their heads! Coupon code: BIZARRE https://www.scottevest.com/ ---------------------- Written & produced by @SpudHilton Subscribe: https://podfollow.com/1468333563 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bizarretraveler Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarretraveler/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BizarreTraveler

In this episode: Buyer pays $100,000 for a replica of most unfortunate station wagon in road-trip history. Thanks to GPS, a Belgian woman driving to the Brussels airport to pick up a friend ends up in Croatia.

Whether it’s “I’ve Been Everywhere” by Johnny Cash or Chuck Berry’s version of “Route 66,” road-trip anthems are a vital part of travel culture. But there's a big difference between “road-trip songs” and “songs that are fun to play on a road-trip.” On this episode of GROUNDED!, host Spud Hilton talks about the difference and why it matters.

In this episode: The ruins of a Korean king's castle still reside in the world's most dangerous eco-park! Geography trivia from South (and North) of the Border! A relic of one of science's saints finds a home in Florence.

In this episode: The TSA scans a carry-on corpse that gives new meaning to the term “dead-heading!” Secret Garden State: The mystery behind New Jersey’s only nude beach! --------- Written & produced by Spud Hilton Subscribe: https://podfollow.com/1468333563 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bizarretraveler Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarretraveler/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BizarreTraveler

In this episode: Fan's of JK Rowling's books seek out selfies in grave situations! A Florida man continues his 30-year quest for Bigfoot’s cousin.

In this episode: Why Everest isn't really the tallest; the reason United Airlines has a PR department; and a museum dedicated to the inventor of Top Ramen.

In this episode of Bizarre Travel Tales, we’ll find why France’s rail system needs a bigger plunger; that one European city is, legally, an intergalactic speed trap; and that a British restaurant owner thinks his take-out food should be taken waaay out.

In this episode of Bizarre Travel Tales: Eskimo homes in the Caribbean; why the greatest American road trip song isn't American; a skyscraper proves not everything is bigger in Texas.

In this episode of Bizarre Travel Tales, we’ll explore chest size in the furniture capital of the world; that what happens in Pamplona, bleeds in Pamplona; and what to do when Japanese airport security plants a big bag of pot in your luggage.

We rely so much on spoken and written language, especially on the road, but is it possible that focusing too much on it prevents us from communicating other ways? Longtime travel journalist Spud Hilton explores the topic in a new Inappropriate Traveler podcast feature called Grounded!, an audio column looking at the myths, cliches and assumptions that many make about travel.

Longtime travel blogger and train fanatic Nora Dunn talks about what happens when Eastern medicine goes south, emptying vomit buckets in Peru, the downside to skydiving naked, and why zip-off convertible pants are a sign of the apocalypse. (Episode contains adult language and content.)

Drag performer Afrika America brings fun and fabulousness to everything she does — including her day job as a flight attendant. She chats about tragically oblivious passengers, why Chicago is great for cutting loose (Boystown!), being a glutton in New Orleans, and discovering there are African American people in Salt Lake City. (Episode contains adult language and content.)

Longtime blogger, entreprenuer and author Matt Kepnes talks about what life on the road for a decade is really like, missing a flight because of a hangover, why Paris is great for the deadly sin of gluttony, and a failed attempt to sleep through an orgy in Prague. (Episode contains adult language and content.)

Veteran blogger and outspoken travel advocate Pam Mandel (@NerdsEyeView) chats about people-watching in Waikiki, why road trips are the best travel (hint: stopping for pie), telling truth to tourism outlets, and lusting after Cambodian monks.

One of the world's most popular travel gurus talks about where to get pork ribs in Tel Aviv, the art of "paleo showering," his Catholic-suffering approach to air travel, the origin or the "pornstache" and why he would prefer snakes over infants on an airplane. (Episode contains adult language and content.)

Veteran travel writer and blogger Rich Grant talks about drinking scotch from Coke cups, why the ruins at Pompeii need a bar, supplying strippers with convention swag, and why Disney's Star Wars land is better than the Pyramids of Egypt.

San Francisco radio and TV travel guru Joel Riddell talks about stripping down on the Croatia coast, hunky generals, forbidden love (of Disneyland), kilos of caviar and leaving a butt print at the birthplace of Christ. Yeah, really. Host: Spud Hilton (@spudhilton) Episode co-host: Molly Blaisdell Location: CityScape Lounge, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, Calif., USA Theme music: "Camelboots," by 84 Rooms (1982) Apollo 11 launch audio courtesy of NASA (for the 50th...

Air travel expert Chris McGinnis talks about shower sex in airport lounges, why hot tubs are "DNA cocktails," mistaking Portuguese sausage as a "marital aid," and why you should never drink coffee on an airplane. Seriously.

Veteran travel writer and expert Jill K. Robinson shares tales about torture on a Mexican tequila tour, her favorite New Orleans bars and why she's "not a Strip girl" -- in Las Vegas.

Travel expert, writer and host Ernest White II, known as Fly Brother, talks about experiences -- some nice, some naughty -- in Havana, Sao Paulo, Paris and the Republic of Georgia. Hosts: Spud Hilton and Krislyn Hashimoto