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When seen from above, the pyramids of Giza align with the stars; survivors of Katrina find rescue when least expected; a volcano burns bright blue; a forgotten beach reveals its secrets.

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A remote island linked to one of the world's most famous aviation mysteries; thousands of shipwrecks in the Bermuda triangle; a history lost and found in the South Pacific; a 10,000-year-old mystery in the murky depths of the Yucatán Peninsula.

Lost at Sea

As seen from space, a crater in Turkmenistan, is on fire; drones reveal perfect circles in the Namibian desert; A puzzle is solved by a World War 2 code breaker; Mystery of Death Valley's self-moving stones; Utah's strange electric blue ponds.

Desert Mysteries

Drones reveal what's left of Henry Ford's American suburb in the Brazilian jungle; looking for clues to what killed a once-vibrant Pennsylvania mining town; an aerial glimpse of New York's forgotten ghost town; an Italian Renaissance reduced to dust.

Ghost Towns

Strange markings in the remote reaches of Northern Finland; drones find a Manhattan-sized mystery in the depths of a Vietnamese cave; secrets are no longer hidden in the Antarctic; a lost sky-high world in Mozambique gets a visit from above.

Unreachable Places

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Evidence of female power in ancient Kush; secrets long buried in a New Mexico pueblo; a find near the Nazca Lines in Peru; mysteries in Cambodia's Angkor Wat.

Ancient Civilizations

Parting the waters using satellite imagery to see what lies beneath; discovering a lost-lost Turkish basilica, a church spire amid toxic sludge in Romania, a ship hull in the North Sea, a shocking underwater find that rivals the Great Barrier Reef.

Submerged

Over a hundred big concrete arrows scattered across the U.S.; a giant chalk figure with an oversized phallus on an English hillside; a mysterious hole in the middle of a lake in Southern California.

In Plain Sight

Unlock military secrets from the air; spot a Nazi weapon designed to turn the tides of war in France; a covert Russian military tower in Chernobyl's shadow; a rumored nuclear lab buried in Australia; a hush-hush surprise underneath Alcatraz.

Military Mysteries

A vanished Neolithic structure in an Irish farmer's field, an ancient oasis in the remote reaches of a Chinese desert, a centuries-old buried treasure in the U.K. and a dreaded predator in the Pacific Ocean are discovered by accident using drones.

Accidental Discoveries

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