Dirty Great Machines features the biggest, most awe-inspiring and technologically advanced equipment known to man. From excavators to monster maritime machines and mighty drills, witness the incredible equipment in action as they take on the world's most challenging projects.

Behind every seemingly impossible marvel of modern engineering is a cast of historic trailblazers who designed new building techniques, took risks on untested materials and revolutionized their field.

Go inside the incredible machinery behind these everyday objects to see their extraordinary inner workings.

Made By Destruction travels around the globe to explore how everything from obsolete airplanes to empty bottles are being split apart, stripped down, melted, shredded and re-invented in ingenious and extraordinary ways.

How To Build Everything is a do-it-yourself guide for building humanity’s greatest inventions.

On Long Island, Jimmy’s Junk is the premiere junkyard for the subculture of high-end inventors, backyard builders and antique pickers constantly looking for missing parts to complete their passion projects.

After years of design, debate, and delays, America's greatest skyscraper and symbol of rebirth is finally rising skyward. Take an inside look at the rebuilding of the new World Trade Center and the 9/11 Memorial. Can it all be completed before the tragedy's ten-year anniversary?

X-Machines takes a look at the largest and most technologically advanced machines from around the world.

Have you ever wondered how aluminum foil is made? From adhesive bandages to contact lenses, find out how many of the everyday objects we use become the things they are.

Architect Danny Forster gets up close and personal with mega-construction. Along with designers, engineers, and builders, he'll find the most dangerous, most spectacular, most difficult, and most inventively executed aspects of the job.

Years after mankind's first steps on the lunar surface, reaching the Moon is still a metaphor for an impossible journey. While astronauts who walked on the Moon became household names, those who created the machines that made their journeys possible have been forgotten.

Archaeologists and explorers Blue Nelson and Mike Arbuthnot will embark on their biggest ever adventure – to find out how far the Vikings explored into America.