New York’s Lost Double-Decker Elevated Trains
Before the subway tunneled beneath Manhattan, New York’s transit network featured an extraordinary system of double-decker elevated railways. This episode explores the forgotten story of stacked stati...
12 Apr 22min
Why 8-Mile Wall is Totally Forbidden
Running across Detroit’s northern edge, 8 Mile has a complex history linked to surveys, treaties, and housing maps that transformed it into a notorious dividing line. In 1941, developers erected a six...
11 Apr 19min
Why Toronto’s Airport Was Built Around a Cemetery
For decades, Toronto’s Pearson International Airport housed a 19th-century Catholic cemetery, the resting place of early settlers from the now-vanished village of Elmbank. This cemetery, fenced off an...
10 Apr 19min
Why This California City Built 500 Miles of Roads to Nowhere
In the Mojave Desert, about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, lies California City—a vast urban experiment designed for nearly half a million residents but now home to fewer than 15,000. This stark ...
9 Apr 13min
Why This Illinois City Built a Gate to Seal Itself Off
At the southern tip of Illinois, where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers converge, lies the city of Cairo, which once depended on the Big Subway Gate for flood defense. This massive iron barrier was des...
8 Apr 14min
Why San Francisco’s Treasure Island is Radioactive
In the middle of San Francisco Bay sits an island that did not even exist a century ago. Built from dredged sand and rock in the 1930s, Treasure Island was created as the dazzling home of the 1939 Gol...
7 Apr 11min
Why Niagara Falls Was Turned Off
In 1969, engineers performed the unprecedented act of turning off Niagara Falls, leaving the American Falls as a dry cliff face for several months. This episode explores the surprising findings uncove...
5 Apr 16min
