Secrets of America's Favorite Places
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201660 minEnded

Secrets of America's Favorite Places

Network:Discovery Family

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Aired on Aug 21, 2016, 9:30 PM

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From San Francisco's infamous Alcatraz Island Prison to New York City's historic Grand Central Terminal, Secrets of America's Favorite Places travels the U.S. in search of new and astonishing revelations surrounding America's most beloved historical icons with interviews and commentary from historians, U.S. National Park Service members, conspiracy theorists, artists and pop culture experts. Throughout the eight-episode season, the series will visit famous structures and places including the Statue of Liberty, Central Park and Grand Central Terminal (New York), the Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.), Hollywood Boulevard, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz (California) and Mount Rushmore (South Dakota).

Details

Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
60 min
Premiered
July 3, 2016
Ended
August 21, 2016
Schedule
Sunday at 6:00 PM

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Episodes (1 Season · 8 Episodes)

Statue of Liberty

Aside from the U.S. flag, there is no icon that is more identified with America more than the Statue of Liberty. Some little-known details story of how this statue came to be will surprise you.

Jul 3, 2016

60 min

Lincoln's Washington

This episode explores secrets and mysteries of well-known and little-known structures associated with Abraham Lincoln in Washington DC. Are there secret messages contained in the statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial?

Jul 10, 2016

60 min

Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore is one of America's most instantly recognizable national monuments. What did it take to carve the four presidents heads sixty feet tall each into solid granite?

Jul 17, 2016

60 min

Alcatraz

What was it really like to do time on "The Rock"? One of the last surviving former Alcatraz inmates gives his first-ever TV interview and shatters many myths about the famous prison.

Jul 24, 2016

60 min

Golden Gate Bridge

Get ready to see through the fog that often surrounds the Golden Gate Bridge and uncover the surprising stories behind the span.

Jul 31, 2016

60 min

Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central's opulent design and beautiful space are explored in a search for hidden secrets and there are three secrets contained in the main concourse's starry ceiling alone.

Aug 7, 2016

60 min

Hollywood Boulevard

The show investigates how celebrities are awarded sidewalk stars. For the first time ever, the complete manufacturing of a Walk of Fame star is filmed from beginning to end.

Aug 14, 2016

60 min

Central Park

Exploring the 843 acres of green tranquility that make up Central Park; secret parts of the park that even city officials do not know how to reach; the entire village that vanished from the park; the several species of birds that call the park home.

Aug 21, 2016

60 min

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