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Tom Scott: Amazing Places
9 seasons • 2015 • Ended
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S2015 | E01
What's The Doomsday Seed Vault Really For?
Jun 29, 2015
S2015 | E02
The Sundial That Works 24 Hours A Day
Jul 1, 2015
S2015 | E03
How To Visit Svalbard
Jul 2, 2015
S2015 | E04
The Islands Where Guns are Required
Jul 3, 2015
S2015 | E05
The World's Largest Indoor Waterpark
Jul 20, 2015
S2015 | E06
Containing the Worst Nuclear Disaster in History: Chernobyl's New Confinement Structure
Jul 27, 2015
S2015 | E07
Radioactive Bananas in Chernobyl
Jul 28, 2015
S2015 | E08
How to Visit Chernobyl
Jul 29, 2015
S2015 | E09
The Russian Woodpecker of Chernobyl: How To See Over The Horizon
Jul 31, 2015
S2015 | E10
Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel
Sep 28, 2015
S2015 | E11
The Strange St Pauli Elbtunnel
Oct 12, 2015
S2015 | E12
700 Flavours of Soda Pop: Galco's in Los Angeles
Nov 27, 2015
S2016 | E01
Why Wuppertal's Suspended Monorail Wasn't The Future Of Travel
Jan 25, 2016
S2016 | E02
The Second Largest Freezer in Norway
Feb 3, 2016
S2016 | E03
Inside A Satellite Clean Room
Feb 22, 2016
S2016 | E04
Driving Through Russia Without A Visa: The Saatse Boot
Mar 7, 2016
S2016 | E05
The Not-Quite-Robots That Help Fix Fusion Reactors
May 2, 2016
S2016 | E06
The Most Dangerous Stretch of Water in the World: The Strid at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire
May 9, 2016
S2016 | E07
The Strangest Elevator In Italy: the Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto, Genoa
May 16, 2016
S2016 | E08
The Bus Replacement Rail Service (yes, that's the right way round)
Jul 6, 2016
S2016 | E09
The Scientifically Inaccurate Dinosaurs That Must Stay That Way
Jul 11, 2016
S2016 | E10
The Fake-British Ghost Town In China: Thames Town
Sep 1, 2016
S2016 | E11
Listening for Nuclear Tests at the Top of the World
Sep 12, 2016
S2016 | E12
The Town Where Wi-Fi Is Banned: The Green Bank Telescope and the Quiet Zone
Oct 3, 2016
S2016 | E13
Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT
Oct 10, 2016
S2016 | E14
The World's Most Dangerous Path Isn't So Dangerous Any More
Oct 17, 2016
S2016 | E15
Arson as a Christmas Tradition: The Gävle Goat
Nov 29, 2016
S2016 | E16
Stopping a Disastrous Plan with Science: the Bay Model
Dec 1, 2016
S2017 | E01
The Confusing Borders of Lake Constance
Jan 2, 2017
S2017 | E02
Elia: The World's Most Frustrating Work of Art
Jan 30, 2017
S2017 | E03
Inside YouTube's Mixed Reality VR Lab
Feb 16, 2017
S2017 | E04
The Beer Pipeline of Bruges
Feb 20, 2017
S2017 | E05
The World's Most Powerful Tidal Current: the Saltstraumen Maelstrom
May 22, 2017
S2017 | E06
The Poison Garden of Alnwick
May 29, 2017
S2017 | E07
The Museum of Failure
Jun 12, 2017
S2017 | E08
An Elevator That Actually Goes Sideways
Jun 26, 2017
S2017 | E09
A Nuclear Waste Dump You Can Walk On: Weldon Spring, Missouri
Sep 4, 2017
S2017 | E10
Rotary Jails and Accidental Amputations
Sep 18, 2017
S2017 | E11
The Reaction Ferries of Basel: What Have We Missed?
Oct 2, 2017
S2017 | E12
Why California's Musical Road Sounds Terrible
Oct 16, 2017
S2017 | E13
The Story of Salvation Mountain
Oct 30, 2017
S2017 | E14
The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure
Nov 6, 2017
S2017 | E15
The German Town That's Literally Breaking Apart
Nov 20, 2017
S2018 | E01
Controlling An Airport From 80 Miles Away
Jan 29, 2018
S2018 | E02
The European City Centre With No Street Names
Feb 19, 2018
S2018 | E03
The 1940s Mermaid Show That's Still Pulling Crowds
Mar 26, 2018
S2018 | E04
The US President's Bulletproof Railcar
Apr 2, 2018
S2018 | E05
A Town Called Asbestos
May 21, 2018
S2018 | E06
The US-Canada Border Splits This Road Down The Middle
May 28, 2018
S2018 | E07
The Town That Was Burned for Science: Aultsville
Jun 4, 2018
S2018 | E08
Freezing 200,000 Tons of Lethal Arsenic Dust
Jun 18, 2018
S2018 | E09
The New Highway to the Arctic Ocean
Jun 25, 2018
S2018 | E10
Watching for Nuclear Attack at the Top of the World
Jul 2, 2018
S2018 | E11
Testing The Sound Mirrors That Protected Britain
Aug 6, 2018
S2018 | E12
I Hit 3,000-Year-Old Art with a Hammer
Aug 13, 2018
S2018 | E13
Testing The World's Longest Echo
Nov 19, 2018
S2018 | E14
An American Stonehenge: The Mysterious Georgia Guidestones
Nov 26, 2018
S2018 | E15
The City of Golf Carts
Dec 10, 2018
S2018 | E16
The Canyon That Humans Made By Accident
Dec 24, 2018
S2019 | E01
The Broken Building That Must Not Be Destroyed
Mar 4, 2019
S2019 | E02
The Last Play-For-Cash Fascination Parlor
Mar 11, 2019
S2019 | E03
The Sculpture That Looks Like A Real-Life Cartoon
Apr 22, 2019
S2019 | E04
The Hundred-Tonne Robots That Help Keep New Zealand Running
Apr 29, 2019
S2019 | E05
The Circle Visible From Space
May 20, 2019
S2019 | E06
The One-Lane Bridge Shared By Cars And Trains
Jun 10, 2019
S2019 | E07
The World's First Solar Powered Train
Jun 24, 2019
S2019 | E08
The Giant Underground Tunnels Protecting Tokyo From Floods
Jul 8, 2019
S2019 | E09
The Only Bit Of Louisiana's Coast That Isn't Sinking
Sep 9, 2019
S2019 | E10
The Toxic Pit With A $3 Admission Fee
Sep 16, 2019
S2019 | E11
Inside The Tunnels That Will Store Nuclear Waste For 100,000 Years
Sep 30, 2019
S2019 | E12
The Giant Art That Keeps Planes Quiet
Oct 21, 2019
S2019 | E13
I Almost Learned To Fly In The World's Only Wingsuit Tunnel
Nov 11, 2019
S2019 | E14
Why The World's Littlest Skyscraper Was A Massive Scam
Dec 16, 2019
S2020 | E01
The Bridge That's In Two Countries At The Same Time
Jan 27, 2020
S2020 | E02
Why The Dutch Headwind Cycling Championships Are Difficult And Amazing
Feb 10, 2020
S2020 | E03
The Country Where All Public Transit Is Free
Feb 24, 2020
S2020 | E04
Inside The Billion-Euro Nuclear Reactor That Was Never Switched On
Mar 16, 2020
S2020 | E05
The World's First Internet Bench
Jun 15, 2020
S2020 | E06
The Abandoned Hill With Two Members Of Parliament
Jul 6, 2020
S2020 | E07
Is The Most Northern Part Of Iceland Still There?
Aug 17, 2020
S2020 | E08
Swimming Between Two Continents, Debunked
Aug 31, 2020
S2020 | E09
The Theme Park Inside An Old Nuclear Power Plant
Oct 12, 2020
S2020 | E10
The Pumps That Must Run Forever, Or Part Of Germany Floods
Nov 2, 2020
S2020 | E11
Walking The Most Dangerous Path In Britain
Nov 30, 2020
S2020 | E12
The Never-Used Road Where The BBC Crash Cars
Dec 14, 2020
S2021 | E01
The Radioactive Beach in New York
Jan 25, 2021
S2021 | E02
Why No-One Will Save Covehithe, The Village That Will Soon Crumble Into The Sea
Mar 15, 2021
S2021 | E03
It's like a spaceship for sharks.
Apr 5, 2021
S2021 | E04
England's Oldest Attraction Turns Teddy Bears To Stone
Apr 6, 2021
S2021 | E05
The Beach Where Lego Keeps Washing Up
May 10, 2021
S2021 | E06
The Accidental Rush for Anthrax Island
May 31, 2021
S2021 | E07
Landing at the only airport that's also a public beach
Jun 14, 2021
S2021 | E08
How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
Jul 5, 2021
S2021 | E09
The UK’s last aerial ropeway uses no power, moves 300 tonnes per day, and will be gone by 2036
Jul 12, 2021
S2021 | E10
I tried to film a volcano, and it was a complete disaster
Jul 26, 2021
S2021 | E11
The diving gondola: a strange elevator to the ocean floor
Aug 2, 2021
S2021 | E12
I helped cover a 5,000-year-old monument with worn-out tires
Aug 16, 2021
S2021 | E13
I took the world's shortest flight. It was underwhelming.
Aug 30, 2021
S2021 | E14
Three strange river crossings
Sep 13, 2021
S2021 | E15
The public toll road with no speed limit
Sep 20, 2021
S2021 | E16
The world's most useful model railway
Sep 27, 2021
S2021 | E17
I thought the Schmid Peoplemover was impossible
Oct 4, 2021
S2021 | E18
The world's only float-through McDonalds
Oct 11, 2021
S2021 | E19
The shooting range where you fire over a busy road
Oct 18, 2021
S2021 | E20
The highway where trucks work like electric trains
Oct 25, 2021
S2021 | E21
An actual, real-world use for robot dogs
Nov 1, 2021
S2021 | E22
Why this "falling rocks" sign is more important than most
Nov 8, 2021
S2021 | E23
This tiny railroad across the sea has an important job
Nov 15, 2021
S2021 | E24
The tunnel where people pay to inhale radioactive gas
Nov 22, 2021
S2021 | E25
The town where holding fireworks over your head is a tradition
Nov 29, 2021
S2021 | E26
The world's most expensive object by weight
Dec 6, 2021
S2021 | E27
The Thames Barrier must never fail. Here's why it doesn't.
Dec 13, 2021
S2022 | E01
The metres-high mountain of mannequins in the Midlands
Jan 3, 2022
S2022 | E02
How one British laboratory protects the world's chocolate
Jan 24, 2022
S2022 | E03
Literally just three minutes where I talk about some rocks
Jan 31, 2022
S2022 | E04
The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving
Feb 7, 2022
S2022 | E05
This town forgot to be a city
Feb 21, 2022
S2022 | E06
The Elie Chainwalk is safe, as long as you follow the signs
Feb 28, 2022
S2022 | E07
After 140 years, this old technology still keeps trains safe
Mar 7, 2022
S2022 | E08
The giant archive hidden under the British countryside
Mar 28, 2022
S2022 | E09
The bridge that must legally wobble
Apr 18, 2022
S2022 | E10
Downhill, on a couch, on public roads.
Apr 25, 2022
S2022 | E11
Europe's toughest airport landing used to be a lot harder
May 2, 2022
S2022 | E12
You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
May 9, 2022
S2022 | E13
I rode a giant mechanical elephant. You can too.
May 30, 2022
S2022 | E14
Maybe rich people should build weird fountains again
Jun 6, 2022
S2022 | E15
It's a pile of mining waste. Want to go skiing on it?
Jun 13, 2022
S2022 | E16
A geyser that shoots sparkling mineral water
Aug 1, 2022
S2022 | E17
Delivering mail by jumping from a moving boat
Aug 15, 2022
S2022 | E18
This is the most interesting roof in London.
Sep 5, 2022
S2022 | E19
I thought the treadmill crane was fictional.
Sep 26, 2022
S2022 | E20
I finally found a useful monorail.
Oct 3, 2022
S2022 | E21
This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
Oct 17, 2022
S2022 | E22
This electric ferry uses a very long extension cord
Nov 7, 2022
S2022 | E23
This river can be switched on and off
Nov 14, 2022
S2022 | E24
Why build a diving board twice the Olympic height?
Nov 21, 2022
S2022 | E25
Cheap, renewable, clean energy. There's just one problem.
Nov 28, 2022
S2022 | E26
Firing radioactive stuff at high speed under city streets
Dec 5, 2022
S2023 | E01
The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well
Jan 2, 2023
S2023 | E02
I took a ride on a moving radio telescope
Jan 16, 2023
S2023 | E03
Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.
Feb 6, 2023
S2023 | E04
This cafe sends food through pneumatic tubes
Feb 20, 2023
S2023 | E05
The city with a hundred private cable cars
Mar 6, 2023
S2023 | E06
Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel
Mar 13, 2023
S2023 | E07
This bus transforms into a train
Mar 20, 2023
S2023 | E08
I rode the world's fastest train
Apr 3, 2023
S2023 | E09
The military base where you drive over the runway
Apr 24, 2023
S2023 | E10
The world’s cleanest railway
May 8, 2023
S2023 | E11
The people who get paid to get sick
May 15, 2023
S2023 | E12
Shake tables are way more complex than I thought
May 22, 2023
S2023 | E13
This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel
May 29, 2023
S2023 | E14
No-one knows how explosions work (yet)
Jun 5, 2023
S2023 | E15
I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator
Jun 12, 2023
S2023 | E16
The cable car that you pedal by hand
Jun 19, 2023
S2023 | E17
The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains
Jun 26, 2023
S2023 | E18
I thought this rotating house was impossible.
Jul 10, 2023
S2023 | E19
Storing dead people at -196°C
Jul 31, 2023
S2023 | E20
This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones
Aug 7, 2023
S2023 | E21
This town throws pennies at people. They hurt.
Aug 14, 2023
S2023 | E22
This man built his office inside a lift
Aug 28, 2023
S2023 | E23
Spherical houses weren't a great idea.
Sep 25, 2023
S2023 | E24
I finally rode the weird, curved German lift.
Oct 9, 2023
S2023 | E25
These tiny ships have a serious purpose
Nov 20, 2023
S2023 | E26
A robot just swapped my electric car's battery
Dec 11, 2023
S00 | E01
An Unedited, Rain-Soaked Ride on Claughton's Aerial Ropeway
Jul 19, 2021
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