Cottage Life

At the onset of winter, Alaskans combat threats; a storm batters Kavik as Sue fortifies camp; Ricko searches for elusive wildlife; the Hailstones ice fish; Johnny secures food in the Brooks Range.

Explore a bleak communications hub that housed a California cult; eye a secret U.S. Navy arsenal in Florida; check into a decaying Ohio inn at the crossroads of history and tread lightly near a medieval contraption in a New Hampshire field.

Figuring out who's the creator of a 5,000-year-old carved stone object covered in markings; examining why people believed an electrocution device could cure them.

A CCTV camera in Grand French House captures what seems to be an explosive outburst of poltergeist activity; a truck driver films the peaks around him turning to dust and thundering towards him as he stops in a valley in Iran's Zagros Mountain range.

The haunting remains of a ghost village with a savage past lie in the Caucasus Mountains of Azerbaijan; experts investigate and uncover a hostile territorial and ethic struggle that led to the mass exodus of an entire city.

Tally up the dangers in 80-year-old Filomena's beloved but crumbling home and see why her kids put out a distress call to the Holmes team. Check out the aging-friendly upgrades that will keep this widow safe and help her stay in the house she loves.

While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a police officer springs into action to save his child and the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.

Kick off construction with Todd and his wife, Rebecca, who face challenges on Day 1 when a windstorm blocks the road. See what architect Monty Wood and designer Ami McKay have in store for this high-tech A-frame as they begin laying the foundation.

A warmer planet creates drier conditions and increasing lightning activity, causing catastrophic wildfires and other anomalies like "firenadoes"; megastorm events occur in California and Alberta, Canada.

Inspect the wreck of the Mary Celestia, a Civil War ship raised by a hurricane. Encounter imperial relics exposed by a drought in Iraq, the storm-tossed remains of a medieval man, and long-lost wooden artifacts that reshape Native American history.

Sweat it out as Todd and engineer Jim Mandelli bring the property's access road up to code. Fight the temptations of summer vacation as a heat dome settles over the A-frame site and a wildfire forces head carpenter Peter Conolly to evacuate his home.

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Look over Seahenge, a Bronze Age timber circle exposed by England's rising seas. Assess an ancient Ukrainian canoe lifted by flood waters, human remains trapped in a Chinese mudslide, and a forgotten relic on the dried-out bottom of Lake Mead.

Encounter kids' drawings on the walls in Pompeii that expose the city's violent gladiatorial past. Check out a mythical sculpture unearthed by an Indian tsunami, a 12-century temple in quake-prone Mexico, and a sunken ship in Utah's Great Salt Lake.

Balancing on a knife's edge as a crucial bridge is left hanging over a canyon on California's Pacific Coast Highway; a high-speed train disaster in Germany; a Vegas casino inferno; a sinking feeling in an Australian apartment building.

Rescuers aid a young girl trapped under rubble after a Turkish earthquake, all while a tsunami threatens to add to the turmoil; a father and daughter escape Oregon wildfires; a flash flood upstages an outdoor wedding.

Molten lava devours homes and lives when a volcano erupts on La Palma; an entire U.S. town submerged by endless downpours; colossal ice boulders in Italy.

Tragedy strikes the heart of a city as an earthquake wipes out a building full of people in Christchurch, New Zealand; experts investigate an inadequate structural design and weakness in critical supporting columns.

Drilling down on the cause of the sudden dam failure that released 850,000 cubic metres of water inside Rocky Mountain National Park.

An unexpected landslide destroys a hillside highway in Pennsylvania; a bridge collapse in Miami claims several lives; experts use the latest science to investigate these disastrous events to reveal their devastating effects.

Encounter kids' drawings on the walls in Pompeii that expose the city's violent gladiatorial past. Check out a mythical sculpture unearthed by an Indian tsunami, a 12-century temple in quake-prone Mexico, and a sunken ship in Utah's Great Salt Lake.

On Aug. 10, 2020, hurricane-force winds blast through Iowa battering the city of Cedar Rapids; this rare Derecho packing powerful straight line winds takes the city by surprise and leaves behind a trail of destruction.

Encounter kids' drawings on the walls in Pompeii that expose the city's violent gladiatorial past. Check out a mythical sculpture unearthed by an Indian tsunami, a 12-century temple in quake-prone Mexico, and a sunken ship in Utah's Great Salt Lake.

On Aug. 10, 2020, hurricane-force winds blast through Iowa battering the city of Cedar Rapids; this rare Derecho packing powerful straight line winds takes the city by surprise and leaves behind a trail of destruction.

While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a police officer springs into action to save his child and the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.

Witness a miracle as a social media callout nets a roofer who can handle the steep angle. Get a shock when the special, made-in-Poland windows won't fit down the drive, then feel the satisfaction when everything comes together before winter arrives.