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Fast and powerful, they come in a hundred shapes and a thousand colors; to some, motorcycles symbolize freedom; to others, they simply stand for trouble; episode race back in time and see how, for over a hundred years, motorcycles inspired riders.

Limousines have been stretched to greater and greater lengths--as has the notion of what can be done inside them; you can have a rolling disco in a stretched SUV, go for a rumble off-road in a monster truck limousine, or take a direct hit.

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.

In less than a century, the world went from dirt tracks to highways, from propeller planes to space travel, from sailboats to supertankers; in the process, a glut of traffic was created on roadways, railways, airways, and seaways.

Tunnels, whether underwater, blasted through solid rock or negotiating the shifting strata of the Earth's unstable crust, represent a remarkable feat of engineering.

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.

Experts and witnesses report mutant rats are getting bigger and more dangerous with appetites for anything, including human flesh.

Investigating reports of huge, man-eating snakes of 50 feet or more in length in Venezuela; pet pythons escape, multiply and grow huge in the Florida Everglades.

An expedition hunts for a monster-sized, predatory spider in South America and investigates reports from the Middle East about giant arachnids.

Examining how giant killer bees from South America are spreading northward into the United States, attack with ferocity and might be adapting to colder temperatures, which would make them an even greater threat.

New Englanders experience a vampire scare during the 1700s; investigators use the latest technology to analyze historical evidence and study people today who say they are vampires.

Cryptozoologists use special equipment to try to shed light on reports of rods: torpedolike creatures that fly so fast they cannot be spotted by the naked eye.

An urban legend comes true during the 1930s when New York City workers find swarms of alligators living beneath the busy streets of the metropolis; modern herpetologists and explorers search for alligators in the sewers of New York City.

An expedition travels to the Sea of Cortez off Mexico's Baja Peninsula to use specially designed lures with built-in cameras in hope of spotting a giant squid 1,000 feet below the surface.

Experts and witnesses report mutant rats are getting bigger and more dangerous with appetites for anything, including human flesh.

Investigating reports of huge, man-eating snakes of 50 feet or more in length in Venezuela; pet pythons escape, multiply and grow huge in the Florida Everglades.

An expedition hunts for a monster-sized, predatory spider in South America and investigates reports from the Middle East about giant arachnids.

Examining how giant killer bees from South America are spreading northward into the United States, attack with ferocity and might be adapting to colder temperatures, which would make them an even greater threat.

New Englanders experience a vampire scare during the 1700s; investigators use the latest technology to analyze historical evidence and study people today who say they are vampires.

Cryptozoologists use special equipment to try to shed light on reports of rods: torpedolike creatures that fly so fast they cannot be spotted by the naked eye.

An urban legend comes true during the 1930s when New York City workers find swarms of alligators living beneath the busy streets of the metropolis; modern herpetologists and explorers search for alligators in the sewers of New York City.

An expedition travels to the Sea of Cortez off Mexico's Baja Peninsula to use specially designed lures with built-in cameras in hope of spotting a giant squid 1,000 feet below the surface.

Experts and witnesses report mutant rats are getting bigger and more dangerous with appetites for anything, including human flesh.

Investigating reports of huge, man-eating snakes of 50 feet or more in length in Venezuela; pet pythons escape, multiply and grow huge in the Florida Everglades.

An expedition hunts for a monster-sized, predatory spider in South America and investigates reports from the Middle East about giant arachnids.

Examining how giant killer bees from South America are spreading northward into the United States, attack with ferocity and might be adapting to colder temperatures, which would make them an even greater threat.

New Englanders experience a vampire scare during the 1700s; investigators use the latest technology to analyze historical evidence and study people today who say they are vampires.

Cryptozoologists use special equipment to try to shed light on reports of rods: torpedolike creatures that fly so fast they cannot be spotted by the naked eye.

Creativity is everywhere - but who and where does it come from? Artrageous travels the globe showcasing creative geniuses from our past and today, the places that inspired them and that flourish today as hot-spots of ingenuity.

For an instrument developed as recently as the 17th century, the telescope has travelled a long way; the latest version of the once humble telescope will be going a lot farther, carrying us ever closer to the first light.

Wind energy; actor Ed Begley, Jr.; English school goes green.

The hosts test the patented designs of history's lost inventions.

They said he was a lustful Mad Monk, a Holy Devil, who preached God's word, yet practiced every form of evil; the real truth about the rise of Rasputin is stranger and more moving than the legend of the satanic monk.

In just six years, Mikhaeil Gorbachev brought democracy to Russia and ended the Cold War.

Profile of Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic, whose refusal to sign a peace accord led to an assault by NATO forces on his regime.

Portrait of the Russian leader who helped dismantle Communism and forged a new relationship with the United States and the West.

Profile of Roman Emperor Caligula includes details of his reign, including frenzies of lunacy, murder and perverse sexuality.

A profile of Queen Noor of Jordan, the former Lisa Halaby, includes interviews with actor Harrison Ford and King Hussein biographer Peter Snow.

Russian Czar Ivan, the Terrible, conquers Kazan, Astrakhan and Siberia.

History judges Napoleon as warrior, statesman, genius and megalomaniac.

They said he was a lustful Mad Monk, a Holy Devil, who preached God's word, yet practiced every form of evil; the real truth about the rise of Rasputin is stranger and more moving than the legend of the satanic monk.

In just six years, Mikhaeil Gorbachev brought democracy to Russia and ended the Cold War.

Profile of Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic, whose refusal to sign a peace accord led to an assault by NATO forces on his regime.

Portrait of the Russian leader who helped dismantle Communism and forged a new relationship with the United States and the West.

Profile of Roman Emperor Caligula includes details of his reign, including frenzies of lunacy, murder and perverse sexuality.

A profile of Queen Noor of Jordan, the former Lisa Halaby, includes interviews with actor Harrison Ford and King Hussein biographer Peter Snow.

Russian Czar Ivan, the Terrible, conquers Kazan, Astrakhan and Siberia.

History judges Napoleon as warrior, statesman, genius and megalomaniac.

They said he was a lustful Mad Monk, a Holy Devil, who preached God's word, yet practiced every form of evil; the real truth about the rise of Rasputin is stranger and more moving than the legend of the satanic monk.

In just six years, Mikhaeil Gorbachev brought democracy to Russia and ended the Cold War.

Profile of Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic, whose refusal to sign a peace accord led to an assault by NATO forces on his regime.

Portrait of the Russian leader who helped dismantle Communism and forged a new relationship with the United States and the West.

Profile of Roman Emperor Caligula includes details of his reign, including frenzies of lunacy, murder and perverse sexuality.

Acoustical tests discredit Maj. Reno's statement about Little Bighorn.

In Montana, the Weibert family sets out to solve the last mystery of the Battle of the Little Bighorn -- the whereabouts of the priceless cache of weapons taken from Custer's soldiers after the battle.

In Montana, at the edge of the known battlefield, cousins Penny and Craig Weibert close in on the priceless cache of weapons stripped from Custer's soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

The Weibert family is closer than ever to solving the last great mystery of The Battle of the Little Bighorn; guided by Native American legend, the team unearth a Custer-era bullet at the edge of the known battlefield.

New evidence confirms that a man named Finkle was the lone white survivor of Custer's Last Stand.

The Dakota kill 200 troops at the battle of the Little Bighorn; American Indian insights.

Acoustical tests discredit Maj. Reno's statement about Little Bighorn.

In Montana, the Weibert family sets out to solve the last mystery of the Battle of the Little Bighorn -- the whereabouts of the priceless cache of weapons taken from Custer's soldiers after the battle.

In Montana, at the edge of the known battlefield, cousins Penny and Craig Weibert close in on the priceless cache of weapons stripped from Custer's soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

The Weibert family is closer than ever to solving the last great mystery of The Battle of the Little Bighorn; guided by Native American legend, the team unearth a Custer-era bullet at the edge of the known battlefield.

New evidence confirms that a man named Finkle was the lone white survivor of Custer's Last Stand.

The Dakota kill 200 troops at the battle of the Little Bighorn; American Indian insights.

Acoustical tests discredit Maj. Reno's statement about Little Bighorn.