Every year, people risk their lives to enter places the world has marked off-limits, and in most cases, no one fully understands why; from the psychological forces that compel climbers to press on through the Death Zone of Mount Everest, to a stretch of New Mexico wilderness where at least 15 people have vanished without a trace, to a remote island in the Indian Ocean where trespassers are killed on sight - what is it about the world's most dangerous places that makes them impossible to resist?
Across the world, rare medical disorders and extraordinary capabilities reveal how little we truly understand about the human body. From mysterious diseases that freeze people in place to individuals who grow to towering heights, these anomalies challenge the limits of human biology. Are these medical outliers—or evidence that the human body is capable of far stranger things than science has fully explained?
Throughout history, powerful nations around the world have enlisted spies to serve as unique tools of warfare; these secret agents are often tasked with infiltrating organizations, gathering sensitive information and even performing the act of assassination; the most successful spies are the ones whose secrets are only revealed years after their mission has ended, or sometimes, never at all.
For more than 200 years, treasure hunters have been coming to Oak Island in search of a treasure that has so far eluded them all, and has even cost six men their lives, could it be, as legend suggests, the treasure is protected by a deadly curse.
Through records in historical texts, oral tradition and folklore, exploring how a once-thriving community becomes a lost city; what secrets found in the ruins reveal about human history.