Features rare construction footage and interviews with architects, the program climbs to the top of the world's largest towers including Seattle's Space Needle, Canada's CN Tower, and Las Vegas's Stratosphere.
Since its completion in 1869, the Suez Canal has been a vital link in world trade and a point of controversy in geopolitics today, more than 20,000 ships transit the canal yearly.
Construction of the California Department of Transportation Headquarters design excavation skeleton hurricane- and earthquake-proofing structural systems.
An underground subway system transforms the bustling metropolis of Athens, Greece, alleviating chronic traffic problems, meeting the needs of the 2004 Olympics and uncovering thousands of invaluable artifacts.
The story of the construction of America's national highway system, from its beginnings in 1912, which it was conceived by auto and headlight tycoons, to its completion in 1984, when the last stoplight was removed and buried.
When finally completed, China's Three Gorges Dam will tower 607 feet in the air and weigh more than forty Great Pyramids along with China's Great Wall, it will constitute of the two man-made objects visible from the moon.
Explore the arch, one of humanity's strongest and most versatile structures Romans perfected what Egyptians and Greeks experimented with, Arabs incorporated into mosques, Europeans into churches, and modern builders use in dams and future space.
In 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser, needed to harness the flow of the world's longest river: the Nile how the Aswan High Dam socially, politically, culturally, and agriculturally affected Egypt.
Features rare construction footage and interviews with architects, the program climbs to the top of the world's largest towers including Seattle's Space Needle, Canada's CN Tower, and Las Vegas's Stratosphere.
The Pacific Coast Highway winds from exclusive retreats in Malibu, Calif., to the wilds of Washington state.
Hot and spicy items Tabasco sauce made by McIlhenny Co. in Louisiana McCormick & Co. spices from Baltimore chili cook-off capsaicin gives peppers tongue-burning heat Michael Jordan's SolToro Tequila Grill in Connecticut.
The complex logistics behind creating feasts for huge crowds dining aboard a U.S. Navy sub packed with enough food for a 120-day mission cooks prepare a "Victory Meal" for 1,000 Marines feeding 69,000 NFL fans during a Philadelphia Eagles game.
Candy production consumes 7-billion tons yearly, evolving from handmade operations to high-tech mass production explore Hershey's cocoa processing, See's boxed chocolates, Schimpff's traditional methods, and Jelly Belly's gourmet jellybeans.
Chocolate-covered bacon red and white Starlight Mints the key ingredient that gives Lemonheads their sour punch the surprising substance that puts the polish on Mike and Ikes the amount of sugar in cotton candy.
Making breakfast on the USS John C. Stennis.
Around the world, people consume billions of gallons of milk every day a cow-milking parlor pasteurization a three-story milk evaporator milking a yak the world's largest butter churn yogurt.
The history of ice cream ranging from the gelato of Italy and a 19th-century French process to today's frozen desserts visiting Dreyer's, TCBY and Joy Cone Co. factories Ben & Jerry's flavor innovations.
The Pacific Coast Highway winds from exclusive retreats in Malibu, Calif., to the wilds of Washington state.
Hot and spicy items Tabasco sauce made by McIlhenny Co. in Louisiana McCormick & Co. spices from Baltimore chili cook-off capsaicin gives peppers tongue-burning heat Michael Jordan's SolToro Tequila Grill in Connecticut.
The complex logistics behind creating feasts for huge crowds dining aboard a U.S. Navy sub packed with enough food for a 120-day mission cooks prepare a "Victory Meal" for 1,000 Marines feeding 69,000 NFL fans during a Philadelphia Eagles game.