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Season 110 of 10 Episodes
  • 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.
  • Unlock military secrets from the air; spot a Nazi weapon designed to turn the tides of war in France; a covert Russian military tower in Chernobyl's shadow; a rumored nuclear lab buried in Australia; a hush-hush surprise underneath Alcatraz.
  • Over a hundred big concrete arrows scattered across the U.S.; a giant chalk figure with an oversized phallus on an English hillside; a mysterious hole in the middle of a lake in Southern California.
  • Parting the waters using satellite imagery to see what lies beneath; discovering a lost-lost Turkish basilica, a church spire amid toxic sludge in Romania, a ship hull in the North Sea, a shocking underwater find that rivals the Great Barrier Reef.
  • Evidence of female power in ancient Kush; secrets long buried in a New Mexico pueblo; a find near the Nazca Lines in Peru; mysteries in Cambodia's Angkor Wat.
  • Strange markings in the remote reaches of Northern Finland; drones find a Manhattan-sized mystery in the depths of a Vietnamese cave; secrets are no longer hidden in the Antarctic; a lost sky-high world in Mozambique gets a visit from above.
  • Drones reveal what's left of Henry Ford's American suburb in the Brazilian jungle; looking for clues to what killed a once-vibrant Pennsylvania mining town; an aerial glimpse of New York's forgotten ghost town; an Italian Renaissance reduced to dust.
  • As seen from space, a crater in Turkmenistan, is on fire; drones reveal perfect circles in the Namibian desert; A puzzle is solved by a World War 2 code breaker; Mystery of Death Valley's self-moving stones; Utah's strange electric blue ponds.
  • A remote island linked to one of the world's most famous aviation mysteries; thousands of shipwrecks in the Bermuda triangle; a history lost and found in the South Pacific; a 10,000-year-old mystery in the murky depths of the Yucatán Peninsula.
  • When seen from above, the pyramids of Giza align with the stars; survivors of Katrina find rescue when least expected; a volcano burns bright blue; a forgotten beach reveals its secrets.

Record to Watch Later

11 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Mysterious Marine Creatures
    Archaeological Mysteries
    Mysteries of the Abandoned
    Unreachable Places
    In Plain Sight
    Submerged
    Military Mysteries
    Accidental Discoveries
    Lost at Sea
    Ghost Towns
  • Mysterious Marine Creatures

    The view from above reveals baffling behavior from one of the ocean's fastest fish; whales with a strange, aquatic accessorizing habit; a confounding congregation of sharks down under; a perplexing collection of circles decorating the seabed.
    Upcoming
  • Archaeological Mysteries

    Puzzle over an out-of-place relic from World War II and get a bird's-eye view of stone circles in Norway; examine mysterious, ancient mounds on the banks of the Mississippi and uncover the dark history of a medieval English village.
    Upcoming
  • Mysteries of the Abandoned

    The view from above reveals a derelict complex of pod-like structures with seemingly alien origins; a bewildering concrete construction in the mountains of Bosnia; a puzzling collection of out of place shapes discarded in the wilds of Greenland.
    Upcoming
  • Unreachable Places

    Strange markings in the remote reaches of Northern Finland; drones find a Manhattan-sized mystery in the depths of a Vietnamese cave; secrets are no longer hidden in the Antarctic; a lost sky-high world in Mozambique gets a visit from above.
    Upcoming
  • In Plain Sight

    Over a hundred big concrete arrows scattered across the U.S.; a giant chalk figure with an oversized phallus on an English hillside; a mysterious hole in the middle of a lake in Southern California.
    Upcoming
  • Submerged

    Parting the waters using satellite imagery to see what lies beneath; discovering a lost-lost Turkish basilica, a church spire amid toxic sludge in Romania, a ship hull in the North Sea, a shocking underwater find that rivals the Great Barrier Reef.
    Upcoming
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Investigating significant historic and contemporary sites from the revealing vantage points of drone, satellite and aerial photography.

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