From Thomas Edison to Nikola Tesla, the world's greatest minds have enabled us to acquire our light, heat, and power with a simple flip of a switch. The foundation for all of this originates from one important source: Power Plants.

Enter the amazing and ingenious ultra-sturdy shelters, machines, containers, materials and packaging designed to deny the ruination of society. The drive to create the indestructible has inspired some of the most prolific and awe inspiring results:

Get behind the wheel and take control of the some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet. These aren't your average vehicles--and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else. But you need more than just a learner's permit to take control of these vehicles...you need training, experience, and above all, guts--if you plan to sit in the Driver's Seat.

Don't look now--but there's a lot more to your walls than you'd ever imagine. Take a penetrating look inside something we consider utterly mundane, and uncover a surprising and sometimes shocking world.

We live in a highly mechanized world in which billions of products are made by machines--but there are some things that can be built only by using an even more sophisticated tool--the human hand.

It's a great American wilderness--millions of acres of wild, primeval land with its own people, its own technology...and its own rules. Survival there depends on smarts and science, guts and grueling work.

Teddy Roosevelt carried a revolver. The night they each died, Abraham Lincoln carried a $5 Confederate note and nine newspaper clippings, while John Wilkes Booth carried a candle and pictures of five women, including his fianc e. Why?

Food Trucks are hitting the big time--across much of America, they're changing the way we eat. From humble beginnings as chuck wagons and hot dog carts, they've taken off as ethnic eateries, gourmet specialists, and even high-tech mega trucks.

We'll see how the philosophy and architecture of today's American prisons emerged from the sewer cells and castles and dungeons of ancient Rome, medieval Europe and 18th-century England.

It has been said that necessity is the mother of all invention--but that is not always the case. Some strange machines are built for sheer spectacle, some a glimpse into the future or even the past, while others are just plain...Weird.

U.S. soldiers today face enormous challenges, often stationed in desolate locations behind enemy lines.

Just the whiff of a foul odor can make your head spin, your eyes water, your stomach turn--it can even send you hurling. From cesspools, military stink bombs, and rancid rotting meat... to cow farms and landfills... to bad breath, B.O and beyond.

From the beginning of time we've worked to protect ourselves against the very element that keeps us alive...Water. We love it and hate it. With water covering 75% of the Earth's surface, it's no wonder we struggle to stay safe and dry.

In the last decades, police have been swept up in a technological revolution that has transformed nearly all aspects of crime fighting.

Join us as we span the history of one of the world's most famous bridges: London's Tower Bridge. The world's largest bascule bridge when it was erected in 1892, it became a postcard image of London.

The Erie Canal was America's first superhighway-a ribbon of water carved through rock and wilderness. Discover how this engineering marvel carried countless immigrants and their dreams to the west.

Since the ancient pharaohs' time, the Isthmus of Suez has been the gateway between East and West. Today, the Suez Canal is a vital link in world trade and a point of controversy in geopolitics.

Deep beneath London runs a complex network of many miles of tunnels. Join us as we explore them.