Get behind the wheel and take control of the some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet these aren't the average vehicles and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else.
How padlocks and combination locks are made biometric locks cracking open a bank vault how the government plans to keep people away from a nuclear waste site for the next 10,000 years.
Testing the breaking points of vehicles and crash test dummies firing rounds at bulletproof glass breaching a safe the breaking points of steel and concrete.
The biggest machines and their smallest counterparts Airbus A380 and microjet Boss Hoss 425-horsepower bike and 18-inch tall pocket bike world's smallest production car.
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.
Rice is the world's most versatile grain there are over 140,000 types - white, brown, long-grain, wild, short-grain, jasmine, Arborio, Basmati, black Thai, sweet, sticky - enough to satisfy any discerning palate.
The biggest stacked burger in the world at almost 250 pounds a plus-sized Sicilian pizza that feeds almost 75 people a 72-ounce steak that no real cowboy can resist the seven-pound hot dog that's too big for a bun a giant cupcake.
Mankind makes use of lead, a versatile but toxic metal, for 6,000 years mining car battery factory specialists remove harmful lead objects from homes and businesses lead makes crystal sparkle.
Rising from a stretch of desert with nothing but remoteness to recommend it, Las Vegas became a glittering wonderland for dreamers a look at the forces that made Las Vegas a place unlike any on earth.
Two ribbons of concrete span the largest inland body of water in Louisiana, forming the world's longest automobile bridge.
Discover how essential space travel technologies have journeyed back to Earth with surprising and indispensable commercial applications.
How iron mined in Minnesota is made into steel iron weapons revolutionize warfare military metallurgists customize weapons and demonstrate their firepower iron magnets.
Wartime research and development have revolutionized communication, transportation, and medicine from Spam to nuclear power to hairspray and cell phones, life as we know it ironically owes a lot to war.
A computer-managed home in Colorado showcases the high tech gadgetry destined to inhabit every wall in the future a network of walls with cutouts and Plexiglas windows reveal how pests and creepy crawlies of all kinds can congregate.
They are lethal tools that ensured our survival, altered our evolution, and maintained our dominion over other animals though hunting technology is the backbone of a multi-billion dollar sports industry, current cutting-edge gear.
Heavy metals occupy select periodic table portions and are essential to America's economic and military might, stored in National Defense Stockpile vital metals include copper, uranium, lead, zinc, nickel, and corrosion-resistant superalloys.
America's orchards and farms balance hand labor with mechanization through efficient harvesting methods explore orchard management, California's largest fruit packing house, Nebraska corn fields, Wisconsin cranberry marshes, and more.
Cutting, digging, picking, stripping, shaking, and raking--whatever the crop, there's a custom machine to harvest it it all began with handpicking and today it's often one man and one machine harvesting hundreds of acres in a single day.
Built of stone and glass, persistence and prayer, gothic cathedrals are an epiphany of imagination and an articulation of joy featured are such masterpieces as Chartres, Notre Dame and the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
More than 50 years after its construction, the Golden Gate remains one of the world's great engineering marvels. It took 25-million man-hours and 80,000 miles of cable to complete the cost in human life proved even greater.