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An exploration of the 8,000 rooms, white-marble terraces and formal garden comprising the Forbidden City.

Under Rome lies a labyrinth of tunnels and ritual chambers carved into bedrock: the catacombs.

Baldassare Conticello explores the ruins of Pompeii, a city preserved in ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

Ponce de Leon's foolhardy quest for the mythic Fountain of Youth.

The 45.5-carat blue Hope Diamond is rumored to bring a curse to anyone who owns it.

Explores the roots of chemistry in the ancient profession of alchemists, who routinely swindled people in their attempts to turn ordinary metals into gold.

Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman stands as a hero in the North and as a villain in the South.

Looking at the birth of America's first intelligence units, set in motion in by President Lincoln himself in the early days of the war; exploring a spy who broke the boundaries of gender and race.

Union Cavalry soldiers defeat the much larger Confederate Cavalry at the Battle of Mine Creek in Kansas.

Confederate raid on Vermont; Union coal-miners tunnel under a Southern fort in order to blow it up; Confederate plot to burn down New York City.

A new look at the turning points reveals the technology and little-known facts of the Civil War.

Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman stands as a hero in the North and as a villain in the South.

Looking at the birth of America's first intelligence units, set in motion in by President Lincoln himself in the early days of the war; exploring a spy who broke the boundaries of gender and race.

Union Cavalry soldiers defeat the much larger Confederate Cavalry at the Battle of Mine Creek in Kansas.

Confederate raid on Vermont; Union coal-miners tunnel under a Southern fort in order to blow it up; Confederate plot to burn down New York City.

A new look at the turning points reveals the technology and little-known facts of the Civil War.

Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman stands as a hero in the North and as a villain in the South.