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The story of the rise, fall and resurrection of hot rod culture in the United States, featuring the most iconic muscle cars in history, including the rebels who built them, the renegades who drove them and the imprint they left on American culture.

The evolution of the counterculture.

Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations; covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.

Americans insert more than 3.5 million coins into vending machines every 15 minutes; how vending machines work; visiting a factory that produces high-tech vending machines; giant gumball machine.

The historic one-armed bandits; cutting edge, computerized slot machines; some of the wackiest vending machines; binoculars at popular tourist sites; a unique company that collects and cleans the coins thrown into fountains.

The minds of the off-kilter geniuses who thought up off-the-mark concepts; some tinkerers' musings were merely ahead of their time and deemed flops during the inventor's lifetime, but others were just plain bad.

Bees do it; chemists do it; even Photocopiers do it; if it's not done enough, the world will become unglued - literally; from Velcro hooks to Gecko feet, making things that stick is no easy task.

People have spent centuries battling foul odors, including those that arise from cesspools, rotting meat, landfills, stink bombs, cow farms, and bad breath.

It's the place where one man's trash is truly another man's treasure; enter the mysterious world of the junkyard, where many pieces actually do add up to a whole; uncover how junkyard operators create order out of seemingly random piles of junk.

Brief history of undergarments; the evolution from itchy woolen union suits to comfortable briefs and boxers; socks with special threads to prevent odor; fire retardant underwear; the bra industry.

Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations; covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.

Americans insert more than 3.5 million coins into vending machines every 15 minutes; how vending machines work; visiting a factory that produces high-tech vending machines; giant gumball machine.

The historic one-armed bandits; cutting edge, computerized slot machines; some of the wackiest vending machines; binoculars at popular tourist sites; a unique company that collects and cleans the coins thrown into fountains.

The minds of the off-kilter geniuses who thought up off-the-mark concepts; some tinkerers' musings were merely ahead of their time and deemed flops during the inventor's lifetime, but others were just plain bad.

Bees do it; chemists do it; even Photocopiers do it; if it's not done enough, the world will become unglued - literally; from Velcro hooks to Gecko feet, making things that stick is no easy task.

People have spent centuries battling foul odors, including those that arise from cesspools, rotting meat, landfills, stink bombs, cow farms, and bad breath.

It's the place where one man's trash is truly another man's treasure; enter the mysterious world of the junkyard, where many pieces actually do add up to a whole; uncover how junkyard operators create order out of seemingly random piles of junk.

Brief history of undergarments; the evolution from itchy woolen union suits to comfortable briefs and boxers; socks with special threads to prevent odor; fire retardant underwear; the bra industry.

Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations; covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.