Cottage Life

In South Africa, the Cape is struck by both a violent storm and catastrophic wildfires that overwhelm the emergency services.

Scattered around the world are long-forgotten engineering marvels, decaying cities and empty factories that once stood on the cutting edge of design and construction. Today they are discarded, dangerous, and some of them are even deadly. "Mysteries of the Abandoned" reveals why these engineering triumphs were built and how they were left to crumble. In each hourlong episode, stories tell of who or

A sprawling military facility dotted with bunkers for miles now stands abandoned in the American heartland of Edgemont, S.D.; experts investigate and uncover a once highly-secure WWII ordnance site designed to store deadly munitions.

Wade teams up with a local tribe to solve three mysterious deaths in three different South American countries.

An old compound in Texas bears the scars of a violent revolution; a secret facility outside Berlin is used by a dictator to escape justice; the estate of an aristocrat becomes a stronghold for the IRA.

Learning how displaced artifacts spark fresh investigations and rewrite timelines; unearthing a forgotten tragedy in a remote mountain lake in India, checking out footprints that change human migration stories; reopening an ancient cold case.

Confront objects that make no sense; spot a spinning island in an Argentinian marsh, a colossal triangle stuck in the Arizona desert, mysterious multicolored pools across northern Ethiopia and a huge human figure hidden in the Australian outback.

Wade comes face-to-face with one of South America's greatest freshwater fighting fish.

Contestants compete across the series, scoring points by answering questions correctly; they must avoid the impossible answers, otherwise they will be eliminated until the next day.

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Sandi Toksvig is joined by Maisie Adam, Jack Dee, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Alan Davies.

A thousand-year-old Italian tower is brought to the brink of collapse; a Viking stronghold in Greenland, inexplicably abandoned; the ghost WWII bomber that vanishes on its return to base.

An old compound in Texas bears the scars of a violent revolution; a secret facility outside Berlin is used by a dictator to escape justice; the estate of an aristocrat becomes a stronghold for the IRA.

A historic sea vessel rusts in the Delaware River; experts investigate and reveal a passenger liner and the architecture that doubled as a U.S. warship.

In a Danish bog, hundreds of mutilated ancient bones are found, while a mysterious deserted island belonging to Russia is explored.

A hiker in a remote Canadian wilderness clings on for dear life as a glacial melt flash flood threatens to sweep him away.

A thousand-year-old Italian tower is brought to the brink of collapse; a Viking stronghold in Greenland, inexplicably abandoned; the ghost WWII bomber that vanishes on its return to base.

Wade comes face-to-face with one of South America's greatest freshwater fighting fish.

Confront objects that make no sense; spot a spinning island in an Argentinian marsh, a colossal triangle stuck in the Arizona desert, mysterious multicolored pools across northern Ethiopia and a huge human figure hidden in the Australian outback.

The investigation into journalist Mauro De Mauro's disappearance in Italy leads to a discovery; remains found in a Mount Etna cave reveal mafia connections.

Greatest Maya city, built without rivers deep in the Guatemalan jungle; the Maya engineered reservoirs and farmed fragile soil until drought and conflict saw the jungle reclaim all.

Dig deep into history's greatest, most enduring mysteries. Investigate how myths morphed into legends, unearth the truths that lurk behind the stories we've been told, and search for answers to questions that have intrigued humanity for centuries.

The investigation into journalist Mauro De Mauro's disappearance in Italy leads to a discovery; remains found in a Mount Etna cave reveal mafia connections.

Greatest Maya city, built without rivers deep in the Guatemalan jungle; the Maya engineered reservoirs and farmed fragile soil until drought and conflict saw the jungle reclaim all.

Digging deep into history's greatest, most enduring mysteries; investigating how myths morphed into legends, unearthing the truths that lurk behind the stories we've been told, and searching for answers to questions that have intrigued humanity for centuries.

A hiker in a remote Canadian wilderness clings on for dear life as a glacial melt flash flood threatens to sweep him away.

An old compound in Texas bears the scars of a violent revolution; a secret facility outside Berlin is used by a dictator to escape justice; the estate of an aristocrat becomes a stronghold for the IRA.

A historic sea vessel rusts in the Delaware River; experts investigate and reveal a passenger liner and the architecture that doubled as a U.S. warship.

Wade comes face-to-face with one of South America's greatest freshwater fighting fish.

Scattered around the world are long-forgotten engineering marvels, decaying cities and empty factories that once stood on the cutting edge of design and construction. Today they are discarded, dangerous, and some of them are even deadly. "Mysteries of the Abandoned" reveals why these engineering triumphs were built and how they were left to crumble. In each hourlong episode, stories tell of who or

With all the secrets, lies, greed, and infidelity, Ernie and Charlene Scherer's American-dream life was not exactly what it seemed like; a look into how the exposure of their dangerous double life led to one last fatal gamble.

Take a deep dive into watery enigmas; glide over a sunken Italian city; a unique underwater cemetery in the Florida Keys; a yellow brick road to nowhere in the depths of the North Pacific; puzzling rocky constructions off the coast of Australia.

Jeremy Wade is lured to the shores of the Mekong River in Cambodia to search for a monstrous fish that has mauled, blinded, killed and most recently sliced clean through a young man's testicle.

Contestants compete across the series, scoring points by answering questions correctly; they must avoid the impossible answers, otherwise they will be eliminated until the next day.

Summer unleashes a wave of mysterious ailments in pets across the country; Dr. Dayle Poitras confronts a potentially dangerous lump in a reactive German Shepherd's mouth; Dr. Cori Stephen tackles an out-of-control infection in a dog named Trapper.

Dr. Poitras and her team rush into critical surgery to save the life of Ruger, a senior dog battling a badly infected organ; in Saskatoon, Dr. Allison helps a husky cross named Goldy who has a bad limp and a cat who has a bladder full of stones.

Catastrophe strikes a crucial allied air supply route in WWII as 15 planes never return; London's River Thames ices up so much, a fair is held on it; a mission to the Moon narrowly avoids disaster.

Scattered around the world are long-forgotten engineering marvels, decaying cities and empty factories that once stood on the cutting edge of design and construction. Today they are discarded, dangerous, and some of them are even deadly. "Mysteries of the Abandoned" reveals why these engineering triumphs were built and how they were left to crumble. In each hourlong episode, stories tell of who or

A sprawling military facility dotted with bunkers for miles now stands abandoned in the American heartland of Edgemont, S.D.; experts investigate and uncover a once highly-secure WWII ordnance site designed to store deadly munitions.

Archaeologists in Russia unearth many mass graves; a World War II American military plane on a Canadian mountain; strange cosmic rays coming from Antarctica's ice; in Russia, researchers investigate a phenomenon involving glowing snow.

A bomb cyclone detonates across northeast America.

Catastrophe strikes a crucial allied air supply route in WWII as 15 planes never return; London's River Thames ices up so much, a fair is held on it; a mission to the Moon narrowly avoids disaster.

Jeremy Wade is lured to the shores of the Mekong River in Cambodia to search for a monstrous fish that has mauled, blinded, killed and most recently sliced clean through a young man's testicle.

Take a deep dive into watery enigmas; glide over a sunken Italian city; a unique underwater cemetery in the Florida Keys; a yellow brick road to nowhere in the depths of the North Pacific; puzzling rocky constructions off the coast of Australia.

Featuring Graham trading quips with Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Saoirse Ronan, Eddie Redmayne and Blossoms.

Witness astonishing footage shot by members of the public.

The strongest hurricane to ever hit the Western Hemisphere crashes into Mexico; a tornado tosses trucks in Texas.

Featuring Graham trading quips with Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Saoirse Ronan, Eddie Redmayne and Blossoms.

Get a bird's-eye view of an Antarctic desert that looks like it's on Mars, then check out wavy sand dunes dotted with strange blue pools in Brazil. Admire a gravity-defying outback rock formation and bits of autumn colour in a vast, arid landscape.