Istanbul (Pilot)

1 :01x01 - Scotland's Sin City

Edinburgh, Scotland is a thriving metropolis, but take a look into its past, and you'll find it has led a double life. A sophisticated and educated surface city evolved above while a darker, seedy world grew below--from plague victims getting buried alive under the streets to body snatchers, illegal distilleries and castle dungeons. Join host Eric Geller as he investigates these stories, deciphering fact from fiction, while uncovering the engineering marvel of Edinburgh's underground--created when the city actually changed its street level.

2 :01x02 - Hitler's Underground Lair

Berlin, Germany was the battlefield of the 20th century, and today, sealed up and forgotten beneath its streets are the remnants of a dark past. Walk anywhere in the city and you could be walking directly on top of one of the over 1000 Nazi bunkers engineered into Berlin's sandy soil, lost remnants of Hitler's ill-fated Germania or even beer brewing plants that inspired the Nazis' journey into the underground. Join host Eric Geller as he travels through the dark and damp recesses of Berlin's secretive soil.

3 :01x03 - Rome's Hidden Empire

Rome is a city where the past meets the present on every corner. A secret cult practiced right next to the Circus Maximus, and their temple still remains beneath the street. The famous Piazza Navona sits on top of Domitian's Stadium. Pieces of Trajan's Basilica can be found under a gallery owned by fashion dynasty Fendi. Rome's underground is filled with evidence of life during the Empire. Join host Eric Geller as he discovers what life was like during Nero's tyranny and Augustus' reforms and reveals the technological marvels that allowed the construction of one city upon another--literally.

4 :01x04 - Catacombs of Death: Paris

Beneath the hustle and bustle of Paris streets are a world of snaking quarries, hidden catacombs, and mushroom-harvesting tunnels. Even Paris' 10.5 million residents have no idea they live on top of nearly 20 centuries of history carved into the limestone foundation below. From its Gallic beginnings to the Roman foundations of Lutetia, today's Paris may be one of the world's most sophisticated cities above the ground--but below ground it's a different story. Join host Eric Geller as he reveals the secrets beneath Paris and the Notre Dame church and what they reveal about a 2,000 year old civilization that rests underneath it.

5 :01x05 - City of Caves: Budapest

Exploring caves beneath Budapest, Hungary. Included: an underground World War II hospital.

6 :01x06 - New York: The Big Apple

Subterranean New York City is explored. Included: aqueducts; and a classified World War II site.

7 :01x07 - London's Lost Cities: London

A tour of underground London, including Roman baths, Churchill's war room, and bunkers capable of holding 8,000 people.

8 :01x08 - Beneath Vesuvius: Naples

Naples, Italy narrowly escaped meeting the same fate as its neighboring city, Pompeii in 79 AD when Mount Vesuvius wiped out everything around it. The wind saved Naples that day, but life in the shadow of this massive volcano is unlike any other--and so is its underground. For centuries, Neapolitans have carved out their underground, creating a parallel world where their secrets are safe. Entire neighborhoods line the underworld, time capsules of ancient life--with banks, bakeries and homes preserved below. From repelling into an ancient Greek cavern to uncovering Nero's famous stage underneath a modern apartment, host Don Wildman steps back almost 2000 years to discover the world hidden beneath this volcano.

9 :01x09 - Freemason Underground: Boston and Philadelphia

Discover the fascinating and unknown history that lies below major cities around the world today. Explore these layers, which are often hundreds of feet deep. Discover everything form dank dungeons to underground shipwrecks that have been lost for centuries. Join host Eric Geller as he reveals the technological marvels that allowed the construction of one city upon another.

10 :01x10 - Dracula's Underground: Bucharest

Rich in legends and folklore visit the city of Bucharest, Romania and learn about its most famous citizen, Vlad the Impaler, more commonly known as Dracula. Travel underground to separate the myth from reality as secret prisons, caves and dungeons are revealed. Only through the bleak subterranean stretches can one come face-to-face with the Impaler and the truth about this infamous Romanian ruler. Join host Don Wildman as he braves eerie tombs and clandestine tunnels to discover the "Son of the Devil."

11 :01x11 - Secret Pagan Underground: Cappadocia, Turkey

Cappadocia is where East meets West, setting the stage for bloody battles and ruthless land wars. This landscape in modern day Turkey is unlike any other in the world--with an underground to match. 4000 years ago, a mysterious pagan society called the Hittites dug deep into the soft volcanic rock to carve out an intricate underworld. But after almost 800 years of rule, the Hittite Empire vanished without a trace. Where did their people go and what clues have they left behind in their complex subterranean world? Once the Hittites disappeared, everyone from the Romans to the Persians and the Byzantines to the Ottomans fought to control this land, contributing their own subterranean structures to the layers of fortified castles, sacred sanctuaries, and dungeons hidden beneath the sandy lunar landscape. It was a bloody battlefield, and host Don Wildman explores the subterranean world of defense where entire civilizations hid for thousands of years.

12 :01x12 - Underground Bootleggers: Portland, Oregon

100 years ago Portland, Oregon was America's Sodom, a city full of vice, considered the most dangerous port in the world. It was a place where you could get drugs or booze or wake up trapped in a cell beneath the earth. Expanses of underground tunnels enabled slave traders, opium runners and speakeasies to flourish. Join host Don Wildman as he ventures beneath modern Portland into the nefarious world of fight clubs, slave tunnels and gambling dens.

13 :01x13 - Rome: The Rise

Exploration beneath Rome focuses on what can be revealed about the achievements of the Roman Empire during its rise. Included: aqueducts; and sewer systems.

14 :02x01 - Underground Apocalypse

A search in Jerusalem for the Battle of Armageddon, looking for evidence of its history of bloody conflicts and the possibility of future clashes. Included: a look at a sacred stone and evidence of John the Baptist's sermons predicting the end of the world.

15 :02x02 - Vietnam

16 :02x03 - A-Bomb Underground

17 :02x04 - Viking Underground

An investigation of the underground passages in Dublin, Ireland, with a look at subterranean defense tunnels, pagan burial tombs and the mysterious burial crypts that line the underground of the hills. Even the heart of the city contains an underground river flowing through it.

18 :02x05 - Hitler's Last Secret

A look at underground Prague which includes the dungeons of medieval castles, Communist slave camps that were made from abandoned mines, and the storage place of a secret weapon for Hitler, believed to be an old quarry. Also, an investigation of the technology used in the cities underground construction.

19 :02x06 - Maya Underworld

20 :02x07 - Mob Underground

An exploration of the underground of Chicago, emphasizing on the cities historical criminal past. Includes a look into vice dens, secret railroad lines and sunken shipwrecks.

21 :02x08 - Prophecies From Below

A look at the underground dwellings in Jerusalem and its historical legacy as a center of prophecy is explored. Includes an ancient escape route and a bullet factory.

22 :02x09 - New York: Secret Societies

23 :02x10 - Washington D.C.: Seat of Power

A look underneath Washington D.C., including the national defense and the areas which have been created which are intended to keep the country safe from wars and natural disasters. Included is a look at secret bunkers and the world created below the Capital Mall.

24 :02x11 - Stalin's Secret Lair

A look at the underground of Moscow, including the areas relating to the Cold War and Stalin's ruthless reign. Includes a glimpse of hidden bunkers, escape tunnels used to hide from Stalin's henchmen.

25 :02x12 - Katrina Underground

Specialists delve into the New Orleans underground to see how it stands in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and to assess whether the city would be ready for a similar storm in the future.

26 :02x13 - Secret Soviet Bases

A look at the Cold War area of the Soviet Union and their secret underground locations. Included are areas in which nuclear weapons are stored in the Ukraine, submarine bases and apartments.

27 :03x01 - City Of Blood

London, England is the site for many haunting ghost stories, but behind each myth lies the truth. Victorian times brought with it violent crimes, extreme poverty and lawlessness which forced the Londoners to bond to survive. As the church felt challenged by the medical and scientific advances at the time, and disease and overpopulation drove the poverty stricken to do the jobs only the devil could endure. From body snatchers to serial killers to occult clubs and pagan rituals, Londoners lived both above and below ground to their own set of rules. Don Wildman explores London from the bottom up and tells the stories most would rather remain buried.

28 :03x02 - Tunnels Of Hell

In 1945, the U.S. Navy unleashed the "Typhoon of Steel " on the Japanese island of Okinawa, the largest naval armada ever used by the U.S.. Instead of the quick victory in which was supposed to happen, it started the bloodiest battle ever seen in the Pacific, which lasted over 3 months and saw thousands more killed on both sides than in both post-atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. But the battle didn't just happen above ground, it was fought underneath it too in a beehive of tunnels in which the American troops faced down the entrenched Japanese army, to the caves in which thousands of civilians fled to hide and hundreds ended up perishing. This episode shows Don Wildman what it was like to live through the Battle of Okinawa. He heads underground to the subterranean tunnels, caves, and bunkers, where few have gone, and dives to explore the lost naval destroyer sunken deep in the waters off Okinawa's coast.

29 :03x03 - Real Mafia Underground

The world fears the mafia and that includes Sicily, where it's presence cannot be ignored. But did you know the mafia got their start underground? Don travels to Sicily where a secret society once held meetings underground in which corrupt city officials were put on trial and the guilty were executed. Don tracks down ancient subterranean waterways where mob bosses used to make their escape, and discovers a bone-crypt that holds the key to Sicily's violent past. He'll also expose how the mafia teamed up with the Allies during WWII, undermining the Axis' line of bunkers deep within the hillside and embedding themselves into Sicilian society for good.

30 :03x04 - Secret Sin City

Welcome to Las Vegas, where fortunes are made and lost each day through gambling. Casino's first priority has always been to keep it's money safe by use of an intricate security system. From underground vaults to secret surveillance nerve centers, Don Wildman uncovers how the latest technology beats the cheaters. But in the early days, things were not so hi-tech. Don shows how a sandy desert was built up into a mobster metropolis where the show was run by running through tunnels underground since the days of Prohibition. And just as it seemed the city would die and all the thugs were behind bars, Vegas made a stellar comeback. It's the only city in the world where you can be in Egypt one moment and Italy the next, thanks to a secret underground that allows the show to get bigger and better every time.

31 :03x05 - Hitler's Trenches

A trip to Belgium's Western Front where Adolph Hitler served in the German army in trenches and tunnels. Host Don shows us the areas where 24,000 Allies would await the enemy for an ambush, to the indestructible fortress that endured thousands of bombs daily. Discover the underground which helped make WWI one of the bloodiest and brutal war in history...and turned Hitler into the terrifying madman of World War II.

32 :03x06 - Barbarians' Lair

Europe's darkest days lasted 1,000 years, from the swords of barbarian hordes to the guns of the Spanish Empire. After the Roman Empire fell, Europe saw chaos for centuries, with mass bloodshed, rampant disease, and vicious carnage along the streets. But what laid below them was an area cut out by man to help keep people alive...and alert for their enemies. From the immense quarries of a secret society to Templar torture chambers and the tunnels of medieval "ghost knights," Don searches for the darkest secrets of the Dark Continent, which lays beneath Europe's streets.

33 :03x07 - Land of Manson

Los Angeles was a city which was kept in fear and paranoia as the most notorious murders in U.S. history roamed around free. It was Charles Manson and he lived on the deserts of Los Angeles and hoped that the underground would be his safe haven. But Manson and his followers weren't the only dangers lurking beneath the streets of LA. Corrupt cops secretly ran the city, and a subway system laid in waste. The 9-million plus who live there are ready for anything, along with shores which have military bunkers for protection and subterranean disaster-relief war rooms surveying the next big quake, LA's underground holds the key to its survival.

34 :03x08 - Gladiators: Blood Sport

An examination of Ancient Rome, focusing on gladiators and the areas they were associated in, including the Colosseum, brothels and crypts. Also, a school in which the gladiators trained to fight and survive.

35 :03x09 - Secret Holy Land

Ethiopia is home to some of the world's oldest settlements and is born in legend and shrouded in mystery. A home to both Jews and Muslims, it is also home to the second oldest of Christian nations. But in order to practice your Christian faith it would had to have been underground or face a chance of death. From underground engineering marvels to remote, cliff-hanging caves, Ethiopia's hidden churches allowed Christianity in ways no others ever could. From tombs of vanished emperors and subterranean cathedrals, the orthodox priests had worshiped there for thousands of years, from the burial place of Queen of Sheba to the believed resting place of the Ark of the Covenant, the clues of Ethiopia's lost legends and tribes are there...hidden in the African underground.

36 :03x10 - Under the Rock

An examination below San Fransisco includes an ammunition's depot, a former repository for nuclear missiles, Civil War fortifications below Alcatraz, and the tunnels which run below Chinatown.

37 :03x11 - Tomb of the Lost Mummies

An exploration of the city of Cairo, and ancient structures which have withstood time and invasions. Included are a step pyramid which was built before the Giza pyramids, and a tomb which contains over 2,000 mummies. Also, an examination of the Book of the Dead.

38 :03x12 - Gods of War

This episode focuses on the underworld of Turkey, including remaining tunnels from invaders and travelers on a trade route. Also included is the legend and lore of the Trojan War.

39 :03x13 - Alcatraz Down Under

An exploration of the underworld of Sydney, including a 19th century prison, caves which were used by fugitive outlaws, and gold mines. Also, tour of a WWII chemical weapons storage facility, along with the people who once lived there.