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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.

Mysteries From Above

Unlocking the Planet

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 Yucatan 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

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 rumoured 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

Investigating significant historic and contemporary sites from the revealing vantage points of drone, satellite and aerial photography.

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E10 | Unlocking the Planet

E9 | Lost at Sea

E8 | Desert Mysteries

E7 | Ghost Towns

E6 | Unreachable Places

E5 | Ancient Civilizations

E4 | Submerged

E3 | In Plain Sight

E2 | Military Mysteries

E1 | Accidental Discoveries