Smithsonian HD Network Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge. 2026-08-11 Traveling to New York, Denver and Nice, France to visit Little Island, the Denver Museum of Art and La Tête Carrée; the secrets to how they were built are revealed. 2026-08-11 Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge. 2026-08-11 A Manhattan high-rise; an Athens cultural center; a Singapore university. 2026-08-11 After a Chinese airplane lands at a top-secret US Air Force base, the search is on for the cause of a deadly rollercoaster ride in the sky. 2026-08-11 From corrosion and metal fatigue to faulty repairs, three doomed airlines are brought down by gradually deteriorating parts. 2026-08-11 Polish Air Force Flight 101, carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria Kaczyńska and other top officials, crashes in a wooded area while on final approach to Smolensk North Airport in heavy fog and low visibility. 2026-08-11 A billion-dollar Stealth Bomber crashes at a U.S. Air Force base-the costliest aviation disaster ever; bad data misleads a charter flight into a Portuguese mountain; conflicting alarms send a cutting-edge jetliner plunging into the Atlantic. 2026-08-11 With hidden flaws buried in their navigation systems, three planes suffer catastrophic computer errors that force investigators to dig deep for clues. 2026-08-11 Caught in a major tropical storm, a 737 crashes just short of the runway on a Caribbean island, but the accident may not have been weather-related. 2026-08-11 Sailing from Chile and Peru to Ecuador and Costa Rica, the luxurious Seven Seas Explorer cruise ship is full of marble, granite and almost 500 chandeliers. 2026-08-11 We hop aboard a seven-day cruise to the Canary Islands and Madeira aboard the first large liner to run purely on cleaner-burning liquefied natural gas. 2026-08-11 Facing Australia's fierce heat, Celebrity Solstice provides guests with views of waterfalls, jumping crocodiles, koalas and the Great Barrier Reef. 2026-08-11 The only cruise ship designed specifically to navigate the treasures and dangers at the southern tip of South America. 2026-08-11 Follow mega cruiser Regal Princess as she whisks guests to Germany, Russia, and Scandinavia in style. 2026-08-11 We follow passengers and crew aboard Viking Star during its two-week tour from Barcelona to its home port in Bergen, Norway. 2026-08-11 South Africa's most luxurious train - Rovos Rail - travels from Pretoria to Cape Town in classic cars pulled by a series of steam, diesel and electric locomotives. 2026-08-11 Japan's Tōkaidō Shinkansen, known as the bullet train, operates on a dedicated railway line at up to 177 mph. 2026-08-11 A trip aboard one of the world's most expensive and sought-after train rides details the journey for both passengers and crew. 2026-08-11 The Norwegian Breakaway cruise ship sets sail on her first voyage, and her captain faces a tough decision when a North Atlantic tempest forms. 2026-08-11 Follow the building of the Norwegian Breakaway at Germany's Meyer Werft shipyard; it is the largest ship they've ever built, and they have only 18 months to finish it. 2026-08-11 The world's most adventurous cruise ship, MS Fram, battles ice-choked fjords of Greenland to visit wildlife and icebergs. 2026-08-11 The new Viking Sea cruise ship whisks guests away on a journey across the Arctic Circle and into the heart of Norway. 2026-08-11 The Carnival Vista is the new flagship for one of the world's largest cruise lines, carrying more than 4,600 passengers and boasting 10 restaurants, nearly 2,000 staterooms and a crew of 1,400. 2026-08-11 The German Air Force is overhauling their entire fleet of outdated cargo planes, and replacing them with Airbus' latest state-of-the-art military aircraft, the A400M, which can haul massive loads. 2026-08-12 Passengers on Ecuador's Tren Crucero experience a dangerous rail journey, which includes tropical jungles, volcanoes and the Devil's Nose. 2026-08-12 Royal Clipper is the largest sailing cruise ship in the world, celebrating tall ships of the 19th century while offering modern-day service for its guests. 2026-08-12 Azamara Journey travels the rivers of Southeast Asia, delivering passengers to exotic cities and hidden treasures that larger cruise ships cannot reach. 2026-08-12 Switzerland's Bernina Express is one of three railway lines on the UNESCO World Heritage list; it navigates 55 tunnels and nearly 200 viaducts and bridges. 2026-08-12 The Ghan takes passengers on a three-day, two-night journey through Australia; the Pichi Pichi Railway offers passengers a trip on an original steam locomotive train. 2026-08-12 Cruise among the icebergs of Greenland and the Canadian High Arctic aboard the expedition cruiser Ocean Endeavour. 2026-08-12 Experience romance on a mega cruiser that pampers its guests with the best of Italian design and American convenience. 2026-08-12 Set a course for breathtaking sights on Koningsdam's 15-day voyage from Amsterdam to the northern tip of Norway. 2026-08-12 Take a river tour through some of Europe's greatest cities--Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam--on Viking Longship Gefjon. 2026-08-12 A London railway station; giant Singapore biodomes; eye-catching hospital in Las Vegas. 2026-08-12 Defy gravity in an Amsterdam high-rise that hangs 164 feet above the water; marvel at three interconnected towers in Chicago that have a road running through them; examine the revolutionary framework of Paris' controversial Pompidou Centre. 2026-08-12 Peek inside a cloud-inspired library in Canada that's built over a live railway; see how clever engineering helped a huge Seattle skyscraper go up without harming its iconic neighbour, then cross an Australian bridge that floats above a busy river. 2026-08-12 Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge. 2026-08-12 Examine the sightlines in Los Angeles's SoFi Stadium, which sits right in the flight path of LAX; celebrate the ingenuity of the inexperienced crew that built a monumental skyscraper in Malta; visit a forest tower designed for testing elevators. 2026-08-12 Paying tribute to the brave, gravity-defying design of the U.S. National Medal of Honor Museum; traveling to Singapore for a look at a leaning tower of gambling, then exploring a New York City office building that lets the sun shine through. 2026-08-12 Mike works with the U.S. Army in Germany inside the massive fix facility the MAK, Maintenance Activity Kaiserslautern, as teams repair over one hundred Bradley fighting vehicles, then embeds with troops in a massive two-week-long battle exercise. 2026-08-12 Mike works with the Army Corps of Engineers on a massive project to restore essential flow of fresh water to the Florida Everglades; he also joins scientists, python hunters and the Miccosukee Tribe to eliminate invasive species in these wetlands. 2026-08-12 Diving into retrofits on the world's only underwater habitat, where NASA astronauts train for space missions; Mike joins a crack repair team who breathe new life into this oceanic environment after a global pandemic shut it down. 2026-08-12 Mike joins the Assault Craft Unit 5, the U.S. Navy's team for Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs); LCACs carry heavy vehicles and troops onto beaches; Mike helps fly & fix an overhauled LCAC during a U.S. Marines beach assault training mission. 2026-08-12 A 284ft wooden skyscraper built from 1,200 bespoke pieces tests fire safety limits in Milwaukee; a decaying Amsterdam crane track transforms into glass offices; a needle-thin tower stacks 28 apartments onto a 21ft-wide plot in Melbourne, Australia. 2026-08-12 The engineering secrets behind a mobile research station in Antarctica, a gravity-defying concert hall on the Canary Islands, and a rotating boat lift in Scotland. 2026-08-12 In Oklahoma, a sacred spiral mound rises on a former oilfield, honouring 39 tribes. London's crumbling Battersea Power Station is reborn with two million new bricks. And in Spain, Frank Gehry crowns a historic winery. 2026-08-12 Visiting London's Gherkin, Seattle's Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and Lyon's Musée des Confluences to uncover how and why they were built. 2026-08-12 Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge. 2026-08-13