Length: 9:28
Description: What was once the largest Soviet military base in East Germany is now a deserted assortment of shops, homes, theaters, and more.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Mysteries of the Abandoned - San Francisco's Forgotten Sutro Baths
Length: 9:12
Description: The Sutro Baths opened to the public on March 14, 1896. At time of opening, the baths reigned as the world's largest indoor swimming pool complex until its fiery demise in 1966.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
Space's Deepest Secrets - Jupiter's Metallic Hydrogen Core
Length: 10:35
Description: Jupiter is a planet of extremes. Twice the size of all the other planets in our solar system combined, it's formed almost entirely from Hydrogen with a believed metallic hydrogen core.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Mysteries of the Abandoned - The Initiation Well in Sintra, Portugal
Length: 9:25
Description: In Sintra, Portugal, a mysterious, private garden, kept under lock-and-key for the last century, is explored. Winding tunnels stretching deep into the Earth are adorned with various types of iconography, all serving an elusive purpose.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
How the Universe Works - A Long Gravitational Wave and Blast of Gamma Rays
Length: 9:41
Description: Scientists witness for the first time a collision of two neutron stars, or a kilonova.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Pablo Escobar's Abandoned Vacation Estate
Length: 10:36
Description: Pablo Escobar's once-lavish 'La Manuela Hacienda' succumbed to an explosive end. Who was behind the attack, and what motivated their destruction?
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Space's Deepest Secrets - Building the James Webb Space Telescope
Length: 9:15
Description: Scientists are on a race to find the beginning of time and space: the Big Bang. Here, filmed in 2017, see the aerospace engineering marvel that is the James Webb Space telescope, the largest telescope in space.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Mysteries of the Abandoned - An Ancient Roman Resort Town's Underground Tunnels
Length: 10:41
Description: Near the destroyed city of Pompeii, an eerie complex of underground tunnels snake beneath a volcano, and some believe these passages were intended as a gateway to hell. Research reveals exactly why they were built and why they were abandoned.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
How the Universe Works - Spacetime: The Ultimate Cosmic Architect
Length: 9:32
Description: Space conceals a secret structure called spacetime - a tangible substance that bends, stretches, warps and twists matter into the stars and planets we see around us. In many ways, we're just along for the ride 😎.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Mysteries of the Abandoned - A Secret, Depressurized Olympic Training Facility
Length: 11:15
Description: Beneath an innocuous-looking complex is an underground training facility that holds the secret to East Germany's Cold War Olympic success.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Space's Deepest Secrets - Uncovering the Power Source Behind Stars and Supernova
Length: 10:03
Description: Scattered across the night sky in immense numbers are the alchemists of our cosmos: the stars. They forge new elements inside their raging nuclear core and cast them out in cataclysmic supernova explosions. But could the life and death of the most extreme stars in the cosmos be key to understanding our very existence?
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Mysteries of the Abandoned - The Fiery Story Behind a Pennsylvanian Ghost Town
Length: 8:29
Description: Centralia, Pennsylvania is a near-deserted ghost town with a 'fiery' past.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
How the Universe Works - Understanding the Grand Tack Hypothesis
Length: 9:09
Description: According to the Grand Tack model, Jupiter's journey through our early solar system may have taken some surprising 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣s.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Mysteries of the Abandoned - Inside the Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker
Length: 10:12
Description: In the English country of Essex, what appears to be a small bungalow is actually a Cold War secret.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Space's Deepest Secrets - The Incredibly Hard Process of Imaging a Black Hole
Length: 9:13
Description: Sheperd "Shep" Doeleman achieved his dream of imaging a black hole in 2019. Here, in 2017, he details just some of the incredible complications that stood in the way of this massive astronomical feat.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Mysteries of the Abandoned - The Abandoned Prison with a Hollywood Twist
Length: 10:01
Description: The Ohio State Reformatory is a once functioning prison turned movie set, turned haunted museum.
Thursday, September 12, 2024
How the Universe Works - How Ice Water Survives on Mercury
Length: 8:19
Description: Despite what one might assume about the planet closest to our sun, Mercury is home to many deposits of icy water. How did this water get here, and how does it remain amongst sweltering temperature and radiation?
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Mysteries of the Abandoned - An Abandoned Ghost Village in Rural England
Length: 9:08
Description: Learn the history behind the eerily deserted village of Tyneham, located on the outskirts of England.
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Space's Deepest Secrets - Black Holes' Hidden Role at the Heart of Galaxies
Length: 10:52
Description: Black holes' mysterious relationship with the universe is just barely understood by scientists. In 2016, at time of filming, researchers were on the precipice of obtaining physical evidence of the black hole centering our Milky Way galaxy, a feat eventually achieved in 2022.