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12 unusual facts about Travel Channel


Bunlap

The Travel Channel documentary series Tribal Life follows the Bunlap community members.

Cozy Dog Drive In

The Cozy Dog is one of three Springfield restaurants featured in an October 2009 episode of Man v. Food on the Travel Channel.

Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts

Bizarre Foods America, a cooking show which began airing in 2012 on cable television's Travel Channel, uses a hip-hop version for its theme song.

Hellfire Caves

Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures visited the site in 2012 as part of the episode, "Hellfire Cave."

Mick Parsons

Traveling across the country on a Greyhound bus, Mick Parsons talks about traveling the way you don't get it on the Travel Channel.

Millennium Luxury Coaches

In January 2012 Millennium was selected to be featured on the TV show Ultimate Travel for their “Tricked Out Trailers” episode, appearing on the Travel Channel.

Northern Blue Entertainment

Working primarily in television, Northern Blue Entertainment has produced content for A&E, The Travel Channel, Sundance Channel, National Geographic, Lifetime, E! Entertainment, MTV, and WE: Women's Entertainment.

Pirates' House

The Pirates' House was recently featured on "Weekends with Samantha Brown", the Charleston and Savannah episode, hosted by Samantha Brown on the Travel Channel.

Scream! If You Know the Answer

On May 29, 2011, BuzzerBlog reported that the Travel Channel will be presenting a new version of the show for the United States.

The Big Texan Steak Ranch

It is also shown on the Travel Channel's Man v. Food, where host Adam Richman completes the challenge and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, where Bourdain declines to compete but his cameraman takes part and fails.

Travel Channel

In May 2007, Discovery Communications sold Travel Channel to Cox Enterprises subsidiary Cox Communications as part of a larger multi-billion dollar transaction.

Wat Phnom

Wat Phnom appeared on the Travel Channel documentary, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.


Alistair Appleton

In 1999, Appleton returned to the UK, where he scored roles on Sky's Hot TV (2000), Five's House Doctor (2000–2003), BBC Two's Rhona (2000), the Travel Channel's Travel On (2001), BBC One's Garden Invaders (2001), Cash in the Attic (2002–2005), BBC Food's Stately Suppers (2005), and had an appearance as himself on the 2006 Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts.

Caddo Lake

Since 1965 Texas' Caddo Lake has had hundreds of alleged Bigfoot 'sightings' according to the Texas Bigfoot Research Center (TBRC) as told on the Travel Channel 2006 documentary Bigfoot.

Courtney Friel

Friel was a sports anchor and entertainment reporter for GoTV Mobile Television, as well as the hostess for the World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel.

Courtney Hansen

After leaving the corporate world, Hansen hosted the Jack Nicklaus pilot Killer Golf and segments on the Travel Channel, worked as a fashion and fitness model, and was on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine', Muscle & Fitness.

Dave Kendall

Since the cancellation of 120 Minutes, he's worked on the internet, creating programs such as The Daily Dish, as a DJ, spinning records at clubs in New York and London, and on Television, at TechTV/G4, Sky, Channel 4, Travel Channel and Animal Planet.

Dhani Jones

In addition to his football career, Jones hosts the Travel Channel series Dhani Tackles the Globe.

Jones is the star of Dhani Tackles the Globe, a series for the Travel Channel in which he learns how to play international sports that are unknown to most Americans.

DStv

The original video channel bouquet consisted of 17 channels: M-Net, MGM TV, TCM, TNT Sci-Fi Universal, SuperSport, ESPN, SelecTV, Travel Channel, KTV, Cartoon Network, BBC World News, CNN International, Sky News, Trinity Broadcasting Network, MTV, VH1 and TV5Monde.

Edge of America

Edge of America is an American culture and travel show on the Travel Channel, hosted by and starring Geoff Edgers.

J/P Haitian Relief Organization

The Travel Channel's food show No Reservations, hosted by Anthony Bourdain, featured Haiti as the 2011 season opener which first aired on February 28, 2011.

Kapalua, Hawaii

Kapalua Bay was named "Best Beach in the World" by the readers of Condé Nast Traveler magazine, "America's Best Beach" on the first annual list of Stephen Leatherman's Top 10 Beaches in America, and the "Best Beach in America" by the Travel Channel, among other honors.

Letchworth Village

In 2011, Letchworth was featured on the Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures cable-television series on Season 5, Episode 6 which originally aired on October 28, 2011.

Loco moco

This dish was featured on the "Taste of Hawai'i" episode of Girl Meets Hawai'i, a Travel Channel show hosted by Samantha Brown.

Máscara Año 2000, Jr.

In March 2010 Máscara Año 2000, Jr. became involved in a storyline with Dhani Jones, a Cincinnati Bengals Linebacker who hosts a show called Dhani Tackles the Globe on the Travel Channel.

Michael Blair

In 2007 he became a TJ or Travel Journalist for 5 Takes:Latin America on the Travel Channel.

Mitch Vogel

In 2002, Vogel returned to Bonanzas locations for the Travel Channel's TV Road Trip, in which he narrated a look at the Ponderosa Ranch in Incline Village, near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

National Bottle Museum

In 2006 the museum was featured in an episode of the Travel Channel's Cash & Treasures.

North Shore Shrimp Trucks

The Travel Channel show, Man v. Food Nation, featured Giovanni's Aloha Shrimp Truck in an episode set in Oahu.

Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Pennhurst has been featured on the shows Ghost Adventures on Travel Channel, Ghost Hunters on SyFy, Celebrity Ghost Stories on BIO, Snooki & Jwoww on MTV, The Haunting Of... 'Beverley Mitchell' on BIO, Haunted History on History Channel, Ghosts of Mayflower: A Pennhurst Haunting (book), and the self-titled movie 'Pennhurst', featuring Beverley Mitchell and Haylie Duff.

Pine Island, New York

Quaker Creek Store - A store and restaurant specializing in charcuterie and Polish cuisine, it was featured in a 2010 episode of the Travel Channel show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.

Pittsburg, Kansas

In late 2012, NBC news anchor Brian Williams, who started his career in Pittsburg, Kansas as a journalist at KOAM-TV, covered the local story of a fried chicken war between Chicken Annie's and Chicken Mary's on the Travel Channel.

Reading Terminal Market

One of the market's stands, Tommy DiNic's Beef and Pork, was featured on Travel Channel shows Man v. Food and Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America.

Roshumba Williams

From 2004 Roshumba began hosting lifestyle and make-over shows, including Beautiful Homes, Amazing Homes and Fabulous Bathrooms for HGTV; Fox's make-over show, Live Like a Star; WE's Swimsuit Secrets Revealed and Travel Channel's Beach Week.

Samantha Brown

Samantha Elizabeth Brown (born March 31, 1970) is an American television host, notable for her work as the host of several Travel Channel shows including Girl Meets Hawaii, Great Vacation Homes, Great Hotels, Passport to Europe, Passport to Latin America, Great Weekends, Green Getaways, Passport to China, and Samantha Brown's Asia.

Steve Pulcinella

Outside of Iron Sport, Pulcinella regularly announces for regional Highland Games competitions, and serves as athletic director for the annual Celtic Classic in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which was highlighted in a January 2013 episode of the Travel Channel series Edge of America.

Sweet Home, Oregon

Sweet Home has also been featured on the Travel Channel program "Cash and Treasures" for an abundant petrified wood find at Holleywood Ranch between Sweet Home and Holley, Oregon.

Zamir Gotta

He is best known as the traveling companion of American chef Anthony Bourdain in his Travel Channel TV show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, when they traveled to Uzbekistan, Russia and Romania and later in the U.S. Rust Belt, Ukraine, and Kansas City.