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A shipping catastrophe occurs when a massive container vessel runs aground and completely blocks one of the most vital trade routes on the planet; experts investigate and uncover critical wind conditions and potential navigational errors.

Catastrophe strikes as one of America's most vital freeway intersections erupts in flames and completely collapses in San Francisco; experts use the latest science to investigate how an overturned tanker truck spawned a devastating inferno.

A devastating railroad inferno takes down a vital route on a historic river crossing in Arizona; using the latest cutting-edge technology, experts investigate the remaining incinerated evidence to determine what caused such a disastrous derailment.

A shipping catastrophe occurs when a massive container vessel runs aground and completely blocks one of the most vital trade routes on the planet; experts investigate and uncover critical wind conditions and potential navigational errors.

A vital hillside highway in Pennsylvania is destroyed in just minutes after a catastrophic landslide rocks a community; engineers investigate and uncover undetected geological issues with an increased and unstable traffic load.

$34 million worth of cars must be shipped across the Atlantic; nuclear parts needing to be shipped present a unique set of problems.

A helicopter has just come off the production line and shipping it across the Atlantic in immaculate condition presents a unique set of challenges; a rally car must be moved across a few countries in a matter of days.

In 1953, a team of archaeologists uncovers a bizarre, plastered human skull in the ancient city of Jericho; experts investigate the mysterious purpose and identity behind this 9,000-year-old clay-covered artifact.

Discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Ur, a mysterious wooden box adorned with an elaborate mosaic continues to mystify archaeologists today; experts explore the meaning behind its intricate and enigmatic images.

The hidden kingdom of microscopic alien organisms shapes the universe as much as galaxies, stars, and planets; new discoveries reveal how bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms built life on Earth and influence humanity's future in the cosmos.

An explosion in the discovery of exoplanets is challenging everything we know about our universe; experts use cutting-edge astronomy to investigate these mysterious alien worlds and how they defy the laws of physics.

NASA plans to send humans to Mars within just 15 years, but to reach this next frontier of space exploration, experts must discover new technology and cutting-edge science that protects astronauts from the Red Planet's deadliest killers.

New evidence suggests the Knights Templar fled Europe and rebuilt their warrior order in the Americas a century before Christopher Columbus; experts use technology to investigate long-lost relics to see if they confirm this game-changing theory.

New evidence from one of the world's oldest maps offers clues to a long-lost civilization of untold treasure, and this cutting-edge expedition might finally prove that this mysterious kingdom is the ancestral home of the ancient Egyptians.

Meriwether Lewis was the man who teamed with William Clark to map the lands west of the Mississippi, but he died in mysterious circumstances; experts reveal a vast conspiracy that could prove that one of America's greatest explorers was murdered.

Using a long-lost treasure map purporting to show the whereabouts of a missing ship buried with gold and silver in the California desert, a team of experts uses the new evidence to get closer to a game-changing discovery.

The legend of the Fountain of Youth might finally be explained by hidden messages encoded in a 500-year-old map, and using cutting-edge archaeological methods, experts explore forgotten caves and perilous waters to reveal long-lost secrets.

New evidence suggests the Mayan empire may have reestablished themselves in America; using high-tech mapping systems, Justin and Emiliano scan the Florida landscape as they search for ancient canoes and flat-topped pyramids.

As technology advances, manmade accidents have become as destructive as some natural disasters; a look at recent catastrophes.

When water unleashes its rage upon the planet, it becomes the ultimate bringer of death; whether it's from rain washing over the ground, rivers bursting their banks, or failed efforts to stem the flow, flooding is as inevitable as it is unstoppable.

Earthquakes occur when tectonic plates suddenly shift and shock waves shake the Earth's surface; they occur along fault lines -- the most active being the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean and the San Andreas Fault on the American West Coast.

Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are all the same thing with different names, but what they also have in common is their destructive power.

Bridges and tunnels revolutionized transportation-but when they fail, tragedy follows. This episode explores the world's worst collapses and fires, including a tunnel blaze in the Alps so intense it fused 20 cars together. While bridge failures send vehicles plummeting into water or ground below, tunnel fires turn confined spaces into infernos. Why do these disasters happen, and what can be done t

Volcanoes created more than 80% of our planet's surface, but explosive eruptions can be deadly; a journey under the earth to discover why volcanoes are so dangerous.

Tornadoes are violent, rotating columns of air that can level buildings, their unpredictability makes them even more destructive; a look at how tornadoes form and if they can be stopped.

Bridges and tunnels revolutionized transportation-but when they fail, tragedy follows. This episode explores the world's worst collapses and fires, including a tunnel blaze in the Alps so intense it fused 20 cars together. While bridge failures send vehicles plummeting into water or ground below, tunnel fires turn confined spaces into infernos. Why do these disasters happen, and what can be done t

Volcanoes created more than 80% of our planet's surface, but explosive eruptions can be deadly; a journey under the earth to discover why volcanoes are so dangerous.

Tornadoes are violent, rotating columns of air that can level buildings, their unpredictability makes them even more destructive; a look at how tornadoes form and if they can be stopped.

Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are all the same thing with different names, but what they also have in common is their destructive power.

New evidence suggests the Mayan empire may have reestablished themselves in America; using high-tech mapping systems, Justin and Emiliano scan the Florida landscape as they search for ancient canoes and flat-topped pyramids.

As technology advances, manmade accidents have become as destructive as some natural disasters; a look at recent catastrophes.

A museum in South London contains a disturbing tattered hat made of brown felt and decorated with more than 80 human teeth; using the latest imaging technology, experts investigate to uncover the macabre origins of this mysterious Victorian-era cap.

An ancient tablet discovered on the remote reaches of Easter Island is etched in a mysterious glyph system that has yet to be deciphered; experts use cutting-edge tech to determine if this wooden relic could be the key to a lost civilization.

White dwarfs are small, dead stars with a dangerous side, and they are capable of exploding into supernovas and destroying planets; new research suggests these mysterious phenomena may be the key to understanding the universe itself.

The galaxy is full of stars ready to explode into supernovas, a stellar detonation powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth; it's an event that hasn't occurred in 400 years, and the search is on to locate which star may be next.

We don't yet know where the edge of the universe is or what happens there; but thanks to cutting-edge technology and new discoveries, experts might finally reveal the secrets of the phenomena.

After seizing power in 1933, Adolf Hitler began systematically transforming a peaceful German population into a ruthless war machine; experts investigate the innovative methods used by the Nazis to indoctrinate and control the will of its citizens.