Smithsonian TV Guide

The Roald Amundsen sails where few ships will ever go, the vessel was built specifically to take passengers on an unforgettable voyage to Antarctica.

Japan's Kyushu Railway Company unveils the super-luxury Seven Stars train at its train yard in Kitakyushu in Fukuoka prefecture in October 2013.

Passengers take a ride from Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, to the beaches of Montenegro aboard the rugged Belgrade to Bar train.

The Diamond Princess is a British-registered cruise ship owned and operated by Princess Cruises, carrying passengers to some of Japan's most iconic cities.

The world's first cruise ship running on liquefied natural gas, AIDAnova visits the volcanic landscape and stunning beaches of the Canary Islands and Madeira.

Sailing from Chile all the way to Costa Rica, guests paraglide over sand dunes, cruise through mangroves, and zipline through jungles on a luxurious ship.

Norwegian Joy sails amid icebergs in Alaska's Inside Passage, treating guests to glaciers, humpback whales, and the largest zipline in the world.

A new museum building bends 1,100-glass tubes to form a facade & tunnels below the water table; an 11-storey glass atrium is built on the former Berlin Wall.

Host Jay Ellis visits the American Museum of Natural History, an arts center inspired by migrating birds and built on a lake and Boston University.

Host Jay Ellis goes to a 1.2 million square foot office building, a building that landed on a parking garage and the world's longest suspension footbridge.

A 70,000-seat stadium defies seismic forces and international flight paths in LA; Zaha Hadid's dramatically twisted 33-story tower rises around ancient vaults.

Host Mike Davidson goes on a global journey to see the world's mightiest machines and meet the mechanics, engineers and technicians who keep them running.

Featuring a high-rise in Chicago with rippling balconies and the construction of an underground railroad in London that required 26 miles of tunnels.

Host Mike Davidson goes to the Alps to help a team install a new cable on a gondola line, fix a steep cogwheel railway track and visits a family farm.

Host Mike Davidson joins some engineers as they work to build the world's longest railway, fix the gridlock and blast and dig their way through the mountains.

Host Mike Davidson goes to the remote Atacama Desert in Chile to work with a team at observatory ALMA to repair some of the world's biggest antennas.

Host Mike Davidson meets with some U.S. troops in Germany to help them repair some fighting vehicles and joins them for two-week long battle exercises.

The engineering and design story behind the Oslo Opera House, Australia's One Central Park and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.