Many of mankind’s ideas to build big seem impossible. It's an inescapable aspect of progress: things just keep getting bigger. This is the story of dams, highways, bridges and buildings that have transformed cities and even countries. This riveting series explores a hundred years of engineering the biggest, heaviest, tallest structures, and looks at what was supersized 10 or even 100 years ago.

Many of mankind’s ideas to build big seem impossible. It's an inescapable aspect of progress: things just keep getting bigger. This is the story of dams, highways, bridges and buildings that have transformed cities and even countries. This riveting series explores a hundred years of engineering the biggest, heaviest, tallest structures, and looks at what was supersized 10 or even 100 years ago.