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An aerial view of bizarre, "ball-like" habitats in the Netherlands, a Colombian fortress engineered to last, and a strange train built to conquer the towering Swiss Alps.

Engineering from Above

Bizarre Engineering

A look at some of the feats of extreme engineering, including an ancient town built in the Peruvian Andes, a thriving urban center in Iran's scorching desert, and a city engineered to flourish in the frozen climate of Siberia.

Engineering the Extreme

Rural Brazil sees the destruction of a dam; a bridge collapses in Genoa, Italy; a once mighty ancient castle is reduced to ruins in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Engineering Disasters

Presenting an aerial tour of an engineering and mimicry marvel in London, Singapore's Supertree Grove and strange bubble-like domes in southern England.

Engineering Nature

Revealed from above; a big bridge spanning a gigantic gorge in France; a record-breaking outdoor elevator in China; and the world's longest tunnel carving its way deep beneath the Alps.

Record Breakers

Revealed from above; The Pantheon, one of ancient Rome's enduring and enigmatic feats of engineering; in Panama, a continent-crossing canal that almost never was; and in a remote valley in Spain a supersized cross built to memorialize the dead of a brutal civil war.

Superstars

An aerial view of an ancient temple engineered to survive the ravages of time, a cathedral rising from the heart of Barcelona, and a remote, cliffside shrine that seemingly defies the laws of gravity.

For the Gods

Explore a massive defensive wall surrounding a historic Colombian city and see how a series of eerie metal structures protected the English coast during WW II; then visit a vast underground refuge in Turkey designed to protect tens of thousands.

Fortresses

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