Cottage Life

A long-forgotten network of Native American earthworks; a baffling battlefield mystery in Belgium; a mysterious blood-red lake on a remote Greek island; an eerie pink glow emulating from the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Fails include an overpass fire, a downed radio telescope and a sinking airport.

Flash floods tear through Maryland in the US, a couple get stranded in a Himalayan blizzard, and a boat race is besieged by a rare weather phenomenon.

Viewing the remains of a castle-like ruin near Manhattan and a Japanese military stronghold built in response to U.S. gunboat diplomacy; paddling around a beautiful bay that hides a vast mountain complex; pondering the ruins of a decoding landmark.

Uncovering the mystery of the Holy Grail.

The Dendera Temple is one of the best-preserved temples in all of Egypt; experts decipher its mystifying zodiac images and uncover the ceremonial events that took place at this sacred site, and stunning CGI rebuilds this grand complex in its prime.

Viewing the remains of a castle-like ruin near Manhattan and a Japanese military stronghold built in response to U.S. gunboat diplomacy; paddling around a beautiful bay that hides a vast mountain complex; pondering the ruins of a decoding landmark.

Sandi Toksvig indulges in a bit of quaffing and scoffing with Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Phill Jupitus and Prue Leith.

Sandi Toksvig is joined by Alan Davies, Sindhu Vee, Aisling Bea, and Sally Phillips.

Peek at landmarks in places where they shouldn't be; wing your way over an imperial pyramid in the Netherlands, a metal sphere in remote Russia, a lion shape carved into an English hillside and a bare swath cut through an Austrian forest.

Jeremy tracks down eyewitnesses and survivors of piranha attacks, uncovering the fear behind the man-eater.

Sandi Toksvig indulges in a bit of quaffing and scoffing with Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Phill Jupitus and Prue Leith.

Sandi Toksvig is joined by Alan Davies, Sindhu Vee, Aisling Bea, and Sally Phillips.

Peek at landmarks in places where they shouldn't be; wing your way over an imperial pyramid in the Netherlands, a metal sphere in remote Russia, a lion shape carved into an English hillside and a bare swath cut through an Austrian forest.

Cameras onboard a massive cargo ship in the Black Sea capture the vessel buckling and breaking in half as if seized by a mysterious force; experts investigate a bizarre area of perilous waters linked to a history of Bermuda Triangle-like sinkings.

Flash floods tear through Maryland in the US, a couple get stranded in a Himalayan blizzard, and a boat race is besieged by a rare weather phenomenon.

The Dendera Temple is one of the best-preserved temples in all of Egypt; experts decipher its mystifying zodiac images and uncover the ceremonial events that took place at this sacred site, and stunning CGI rebuilds this grand complex in its prime.

Explore some of the world's remarkable engineering marvels, using cutting-edge technology and dynamic graphics, revealing sites from new perspectives and uncovering the secrets hidden within.

Jeremy tracks down eyewitnesses and survivors of piranha attacks, uncovering the fear behind the man-eater.

The players try to tease out which of Rick's answers are not just wrong but actually impossible; three tense rounds and seeing who is left standing to face the 10,000-pound exclamation point.

Diving into the mystery of the HMS Terror, an Arctic ship found 150 years after it and its crew vanished without a trace; seeing if the explosion of the SS Sultana on the Mississippi was an accident or sabotage; boarding the ghost ship Mary Celeste.

Revealing the truth behind the planet's ancient legends; touring an island covered in polar bears, twin craters in Greece, peeking at a supervolcano hidden under Yellowstone Park and examining an ocean formation that's eerily similar to Atlantis.

Reflect on the collapse of this mighty South American society; contemplate how the technologically advanced Inca Empire, which stretched from Ecuador to Chile, was swiftly dismantled and how the evidence of its existence was nearly lost to history.

Walking among colossal wonders scattered across the Earth's surface, including an ancient reptile skeleton, a massive head carving in the Alberta badlands, a giant South African footprint and a pentagram etched into a remote peninsula in Kazakhstan.

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A turtle named Knuckles needs help with some shell issues and a pig named Missy has a bad case of the flu.

In the deep South lives a fish reputed to have committed a series of violent attacks on humans, said to be as vicious as a shark and as big as a gator; extreme angler Jeremy Wade heads to Texas to reveal the truth about the alligator gar.

Revealing the truth behind the planet's ancient legends; touring an island covered in polar bears, twin craters in Greece, peeking at a supervolcano hidden under Yellowstone Park and examining an ocean formation that's eerily similar to Atlantis.

Fails include a disastrous shuttle mission, and an unwanted and very expensive airport.

Hurricane Sandy whips up wild waves in the Atlantic, prompting a rescue mission by the U.S. Coast Guard; cavers in California get caught out by flash floods; wild winds cause a crash for hot air balloonists; residents narrowly escape a landslide.

A teenage girl in Korea is martyred in prison and becomes a national hero; the facility where she was held stands in remembrance of her bravery and the Korean struggle for independence.

Reflect on the collapse of this mighty South American society; contemplate how the technologically advanced Inca Empire, which stretched from Ecuador to Chile, was swiftly dismantled and how the evidence of its existence was nearly lost to history.

The magnificent tomb of Alexander the Great mysteriously vanishes and becomes a legend; using CGI, investigators piece together the evidence to reveal where his tomb lies and what it might look like.

A teenage girl in Korea is martyred in prison and becomes a national hero; the facility where she was held stands in remembrance of her bravery and the Korean struggle for independence.

Three men vanish from a remote Scottish lighthouse; dozens of mines explode simultaneously during the Vietnam War, for no apparent reason; ten billion snow crabs disappear from the Bering Sea.

Explorers find a tunnel system, mass graves, city foundations, and longhouses.

A teenage girl in Korea is martyred in prison and becomes a national hero; the facility where she was held stands in remembrance of her bravery and the Korean struggle for independence.

Dive into the historical and natural secrets of the deep; explore an uninhabited concrete island, ocean spirals off the Australian coast, underwater evidence of a violent past and tracks thousands of metres below the sea's surface.

Explorers find a tunnel system, mass graves, city foundations, and longhouses.

Revisiting a Nazi guided bomb and an early reading device for the blind that left lasting legacies; discovering how their core ideas evolved into video game interfaces gamers can't live without and everyday objects found on modern desks.

Hurricane Sandy whips up wild waves in the Atlantic, prompting a rescue mission by the U.S. Coast Guard; cavers in California get caught out by flash floods; wild winds cause a crash for hot air balloonists; residents narrowly escape a landslide.

The magnificent tomb of Alexander the Great mysteriously vanishes and becomes a legend; using CGI, investigators piece together the evidence to reveal where his tomb lies and what it might look like.

Dr. Lauren races to save a French bulldog with a mysterious bowl issue.

Head to the Australian outback for a peek at some bizarre beehive- and cone-shaped structures, then spot a neon green pool of water in Huelva, Spain. Check out odd geometric shapes near Latvia's Gulf of Riga and a shocking forest anomaly in Hawaii.

Rick reveals the right, wrong and totally impossible answers to the contestants; discovering who has what it takes to weed out the wrong info and take a crack at the 10,000-pound jackpot.

Shedding light on the origins of organized warfare and the brutality it left behind; hunting for the beginnings of organized combat in Germany; finding evidence of Roman power in Denmark, and pondering the symbolic role of elite fighters.

Traipsing along ancient pathways crisscrossing Easter Island; finding gigantic designs carved into Asia's Eastern Steppe; ascending a tall pyramid rising from Antarctica's icy landscape.

Tackle questions about a pharaoh's untimely death at age 19; dig into the physical evidence left behind in his tomb and learn why experts haven't sorted out whether he died of natural causes, poisoning or an accident.

Bundles of cedar wood tree trunks are smashed apart, releasing thousands of logs on the shoreline; Jeremy and his crew must work fast to recover the cargo.

Rick reveals the right, wrong and totally impossible answers to the contestants; discovering who has what it takes to weed out the wrong info and take a crack at the 10,000-pound jackpot.

Wade travels to Germany, where he meets victims of a beast seen raising its snout above the surface of freshwaters in Europe for the past 700 years; discovering the Wels catfish, an aggressive predator of man-eating proportions.

Traipsing along ancient pathways crisscrossing Easter Island; finding gigantic designs carved into Asia's Eastern Steppe; ascending a tall pyramid rising from Antarctica's icy landscape.

Lightning causes construction mayhem, cities are sinking, and bridges are falling down.

A twister outbreak in Texas leaves a storm chaser trapped; in Florida, dangerous riptides drag swimmers out to sea; a sudden storm hits a holiday resort in Greece; a giant wave crashes through a restaurant in Italy.

A vanished Neolithic structure in an Irish farmer's field, an ancient oasis in the remote reaches of a Chinese desert, a centuries-old buried treasure in the U.K. and a dreaded predator in the Pacific Ocean are discovered by accident using drones.

Tackle questions about a pharaoh's untimely death at age 19; dig into the physical evidence left behind in his tomb and learn why experts haven't sorted out whether he died of natural causes, poisoning or an accident.

In 373 B.C., the Greek city of Helike vanished; archaeologists believe they've found the ruins of the great lost metropolis; using CGI, experts re-create the city's final moments and reveal its links to the greatest lost land of all -- Atlantis.

A vanished Neolithic structure in an Irish farmer's field, an ancient oasis in the remote reaches of a Chinese desert, a centuries-old buried treasure in the U.K. and a dreaded predator in the Pacific Ocean are discovered by accident using drones.

Archaeologists discover human remains during an excavation of a fifth-century fort on the Swedish island of Öland; after further investigation, experts unearth 26 skeletons and uncover the site of an ancient massacre.

Archaeologists working at the Templo Mayor temple complex in Mexico, which was once located at the very center of the Aztec Empire, unearthed a chilling find, a tower made of over 600 human skulls.

Archaeologists discover human remains during an excavation of a fifth-century fort on the Swedish island of Öland; after further investigation, experts unearth 26 skeletons and uncover the site of an ancient massacre.