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Modern Marvels
Season 10 · Episode 55
Machu Picchu
0.044mSeptember 24, 2003
The engineering marvel Machu Picchu sits perched on a ridge in the Peruvian Andes. Originally built by the Incas, this magnificent structure remains a mystery. Was it an observatory? Pleasure retreat? Fortress? This program presents the most current theories.
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- Episode 1Trans-Siberian Railroad
- Episode 2Castles & Dungeons
- Episode 3Ice Road Truckers
- Episode 4Winter Warriors
- Episode 5Booby Traps
- Episode 6The Alcan Highway
- Episode 7Twin Towers of the East
- Episode 8The Mackinac Bridge
- Episode 9Bullet Trains
- Episode 10Non-Lethal Weapons
- Episode 11Space Stations
- Episode 12Army Corps of Engineers
- Episode 13Black Hawk: Night Stalker
- Episode 14Japanese Guns of WWII
- Episode 15Titanic Tech
- Episode 16Coal Mines
- Episode 17Secrets of the Acropolis
- Episode 18Machine Guns
- Episode 19Ball Turret Gunners
- Episode 20U.S. Guns of World War II
- Episode 21MiG 15
- Episode 22T-34: Russian Victory
- Episode 23Tank Crews
- Episode 24Harley-Davidson
- Episode 25Torture Devices
- Episode 26Cosmodrome
- Episode 27Exterminator
- Episode 28Million Dollar Guns
- Episode 29High Voltage
- Episode 304x4
- Episode 31Dangerous Cargo
- Episode 32Gunslingers
- Episode 33More Engineering Disasters
- Episode 34Engineering Disasters 4
- Episode 35Nature Tech: Tsunamis
- Episode 36Logging Tech
- Episode 37Breaking the Sound Barrier
- Episode 38Car Crashes
- Episode 39Sandhogs
- Episode 40Convertibles
- Episode 41Loading Docks
- Episode 42Terror Tech: Military
- Episode 43Nature Tech: Tornadoes
- Episode 44Military Movers
- Episode 45Police Guns
- Episode 46Terror Tech: Defending the Highrise
- Episode 47Bullets
- Episode 48Aircraft Carrier
- Episode 49The Gunboats of Vietnam
- Episode 50Metal
- Episode 51Landmines
- Episode 52Space Shuttle Columbia
- Episode 53Overseas Highway
- Episode 54Terror Tech: Civilian
- Episode 55Machu Picchu
- Episode 56The PT Boats
- Episode 57The Battleships
- Episode 58Early Machine Guns
- Episode 59Smart Bombs
- Episode 60Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
- Episode 61Inviting Disaster 1: Three Mile Island
- Episode 62The Luftwaffe
- Episode 63Panzers
- Episode 64U-Boats
- Episode 65Inviting Disaster 2: The Kursk
- Episode 66FBI's Crime Lab
- Episode 67Inviting Disaster 3: Challenger and Columbia
- Episode 68Inviting Disaster 4, Building Failures
- Episode 69Shipyards
- Episode 70Guns of the Sky
- Episode 71Extreme Trucks
- Episode 72Guns of Infamy
- Episode 73ET Tech
- Episode 74Million Dollar Cars
- Episode 75The Technology of Lewis and Clark
- Episode 76B-52: Stratofortress
- Episode 77Extreme Sports Gadgets
- Episode 78Rolls Royce
- Episode 79Tailgating
- Episode 80Wheel Estate
- Episode 81Sports Cars
- Episode 82Technology of Kitty Hawk
- Episode 83Egyptian Pyramids
- Episode 84The Berlin Wall
- Episode 85Toys
- Episode 86Engineering Disasters 5