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Take a river tour through some of Europe's greatest cities--Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam--on Viking Longship Gefjon.

On Europe's high-speed rail network, between Barcelona and Madrid, crews work to expand the infrastructure for a new train.

Traveling from Canada to Belgium to the Southern U.S. to examine an eye-popping school, museum and railway station and reveal how they were built.

Host Mike Davidson helps make high-stakes repairs for one of the world's largest open-ocean fish farm operations in Panama.

In Indonesia, a Boeing 737 spirals out of the sky and nosedives into the Java Sea.

A look at how maritime task forces and the Coast Guard are keeping commercial vessels and US shores safe from pirates and drug smugglers.

The Spitfire's legend and role in the Battle of Britain.

The inside story of how the AH/MH-6 evolved over the decades to become an irreplaceable aircraft for the U.S. Military.

The naval fighter designed to counter the Japanese Zero turns the tide of the war in the Pacific.

Taking an aerial tour of Virginia.

The maiden voyage of the Oasis of the Seas, the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship in the world.

The Canadian Air Force's CC-115 Buffalo is the go-to aircraft for search-and-rescue on the West Coast.

A supervolcano brewing beneath Yellowstone National Park could be the worst natural disaster in history.

The eruption of Guatemala's Fuego volcano kills hundreds as a pyroclastic flow roars down its slopes; the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is a slow-motion disaster, starting w

On the evening of May 3, 1999, the residents of Oklahoma City were hit with a devastating tornado.

On May 18, 1980, Washington state's Mount St. Helens erupts; revisiting the destructive volcanic event and revealing ten failures that escalated the catastrophe, including ignored