Rob Bell explores the wild and beautiful south coast of Ireland to reveal why Fastnet is regarded as the most stunning rock lighthouse ever built. He finds out how this lonely tower became the crowning glory in a 1500-year legacy of saving lives.

Rob travels along the length of the Panama Canal to learn how the seemingly unconquerable isthmus was bent to the will and skill of determined engineers, creating one of the seven wonders of the modern world.

From stormy seas to the land-locked Mojave Desert, Rob Bell discovers the story of how the mighty Colorado river was tamed and the Hoover Dam built. Rob then gets his hands dirty with an alien species that threatens the Hoover Dam's future.