Last season, "Wild Travels" took viewers to unusual destinations around the U.S.—everywhere from a neon boneyard to a parade that doesn't move.
In the new season debuting on WTTW 11 this weekend, the show visits a windswept mountain, a band of mermaids and bears witness to an ice cream catastrophe.
“Last season we spent a lot of time in California, and the South and parts of the Midwest,” said executive producer Harvey Moshman. “This season, we spent a lot of time in the East: lot of pieces in Central Florida, New England, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Oklahoma … Colorado.”
“All over the map like a bad rash, Phil,” host Will Clinger added.
Below, watch a trailer for the season.
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