Grand Central Terminal moves 130,000 passengers a day over 400 miles of track and through 110 stations spread across New York City and upstate New York.
Since its inaugural performance, Cirque Du Soleil's "O" has enthralled over 10 million spectators, during the course of 6000 shows.
The Panama Canal is one of the largest canals in the world and shaves 8,000 miles off what would otherwise be a two-week voyage for the 14,000 vessels that pass through it annually; the most risky manouevre is when northbound ships meet southbound.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport manages 2,700 take-offs and landings and 250,000 passengers daily; it is most strained to capacity on Friday night at 19:24, when there are more planes in the air and on the ground then at any other time.
With over 150,000 calls each year, the District of Columbia Fire and EMS is one of the busiest all-hazardous agencies in the U.S.
The Port of Los Angeles is the biggest, busiest and most significant gateway in North America.
One of the most technically astounding live shows in the world, Cirque du Soleil's 'KA' opened in 2005 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. The main stage is the star acrobat of the show - it can raise 70 feet, tilt from horizontal to vertical and spin a full 360-degrees thanks to its muscle - an 80-foot gantry crane. All of the performers' movements are choreographed to be perfectly in-sync with the movement of the stage.
Fifty thousand people from all over North America descend on the iconic Las Vegas Motor Speedway to watch one of the most thrilling car races of the year - the IndyCar World Championships - which in 2012 tragically ended in a fatal crash.
Best known for its trademark brown trucks, vans and scooters, UPS delivers almost sixteen million packages in 220 countries around the globe every day.
The Channel Tunnel is one of the seven wonders of the modern world. Completed in 1994, it cost 21 billion dollars. The result was a fixed rail link running 100 meters below the English Channel.
Equivalent in size to the kingdom of Monaco, nearly half of the blooms that make up the 40-billion-dollar-a-year flower industry will be bought and sold at the "Aalsmeer Flower Auction" in The Netherlands.
With over 32 square kilometres of mountainous terrain, "Whistler Blackcomb" gets an average of 1,092cm of snowfall each season, the fresh powder is what joy riders are after... but this much snow can also be dangerous.
The Rogers Center is gearing up for fifty three thousand attendees and 8 million viewers tuning into one of the most exciting sporting events in North America - the 100th Grey Cup on TSN. While all eyes are focused on the football plays and the half-time show, what people don't see is the amazing technology, coordination and talent that work tirelessly behind-the-scenes to prepare for and pull off the live broadcast of this multi-million dollar event. In the high adrenalin world of live event broadcasting, there are no second chances. Deadlines can't be missed and decisions are split second.
Soaring 55 stories above Toronto's city skyline, the brand-new Four Seasons Hotel stands as a cutting-edge flagship for the iconic chain when it opened in early October 2012. Competition is stiff in Toronto with the recent launch of the 5-star Ritz-Carlton and the Trump International Hotel - and the Four Seasons' global reputation rides on the flawless opening of this high-profile home base. The pressure is intense and the hotel's 400 staff members feel the heat!
Named "Best Amusement Park in the World" for 13 years straight by Amusement Today - the world's authority on amusement parks - Cedar Point boasts a world-record 73 rides, including 16 rollercoasters! On peak days, 40,000 adrenalin-seeking junkies visit this iconic Ohio park, piling onto coasters, zipping down waterslides and enjoying the stunning waterfront setting. What fun-seekers don't get to see is the massive, coordinated, behind-the-scenes effort by 2000 employees to ensure the gut-wrenching drops and scream-inducing thrills are safe, secure and as exhilarating as ever.
Legal Sea Foods in Boston is a 45 year old seafood empire that takes the freshness and safety of your food to a whole new level! They source, test and prepare 50,000 kilograms of highly perishable seafood every week - exclusively serving the company's 31 high-volume restaurants. Legal Sea Foods' reputation for serving the best, freshest, safest food is always on the line. Seafood is easily susceptible to contamination. And in the restaurant business, one bad meal or one bad mollusk, could ruin even the hardest earned reputations.
For six days in January the barren desert outside Scottsdale, Arizona becomes the site of one of the world's biggest automobile events of the year - the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction. 300,000 people from around the globe gather under a 8 hectare tented city to watch 3000 bidders vying for 1300 of the world's most exotic and expensive used cars. The stakes --$100 million dollars. With 40 hours of live auction broadcast on SPEED network, it takes a team of 800 people from Barrett-Jackson working day and night behind-the-scenes to pull off this iconic event.
Fifty thousand people pack into the Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas to catch one of the most supercharged motorsports entertainment event of the year - Monster Jam. A fleet of 16 monster trucks, each weighing 4.5 tons rumble, roar, and race their way through a precision-designed racetrack and tire-shredding obstacle course. While this may seem like pure mayhem, the amount of coordination and attention to detail required to pull off a Monster Jam show is staggering.