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.

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.

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

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.

Alaska is notorious for its rugged terrain and brutal winters. But with the help of colossal equipment and machines, residents are able to not only endure, but thrive and enjoy among the sub-zero temperatures, steep mountainous terrain and fragile–sometimes deadly–ice.

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.

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.

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?

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.

The world's greatest skyscrapers were built with ambitious engineering and cutting-edge technology, and experts go behind-the-scenes of these modern marvels to reveal the secrets of their inner workings and show how humans have conquered the skies.

From Willis Tower to One World Trade Center, skyscrapers are emblematic of the world’s great cities. Skyscrapers: Engineering the Future puts the spotlight on what the world’s most ambitious cities are doing to transform their skylines with designs that seem to defy gravity.

They are some of the world’s all-time greatest building projects. Most have stood the test of time, but with today’s technology, could they be duplicated and done better?