Episode Guide

In the first episode of new series Life After People, we'll see what happens to some of the bodies left behind. Most are embalmed and buried, some are mummified, while others have been cryogenically frozen. Will any of them truly achieve immortality? Or will they be outlived by other memorials to mankind, like the Statue of Liberty or the Sistine Chapel.

This is just part of a journey that will take us to the future of cities such as Boston and Houston, as well as haunting sites already devoid of man.
 

In this episode of Life After People, savage forces sieze control from man. Thousands of domesticated animals break loose; feats of engineering will self-destruct; pets will escape; and a deadly virus will spread once again. Invasive vines will blanket the South, while the Sears Tower and Big Ben struggle to remain standing. In an outbreak of nature, what will endure?

It is a journey that will take us to the future of Chicago, Atlanta and London, as well as haunting locations already devoid of man.
 

America's capital is under attack. Forces of nature threaten to destroy the national treasures. What will happen to The Capital, The Washington Monument or the Constitution?

Three thousand miles away, Los Angeles, the centre of the entertainment world, faces the same threat. Wilted palm trees set the scene for a massive inferno. What will survive? What creatures might take our place? And could another capital to mankind emerge in the Pacific Ocean when we're gone?

Once people disappear, New York City experiences its next great crash. In this episode, we reveal the breaking point of precious metals: skyscrapers face collapse, bridges hang by a steel thread; and the fate of the nation's secret stash of gold hangs in the balance.

Meanwhile, a fatal weakness is exposed in the Gateway Arch, breweries reveal untapped potential for disaster, and horses make a surprising bid to stay alive in a life after people.
 

In a life after people, invasive animals and vines spread; pythons battle alligators; plants strip oxygen from lakes; and sandstorms invade Phoenix. Also, Shanghai sinks and Miami is submerged.
 

What is the fate for treasures left entombed, such as the mysterious Doomsday Vault, the Mona Lisa and the Declaration of Independence? Will they survive a landscape in which no humans are there to tend to them? Certainly, Philiadelphia's Liberty Bell does not, cracking for good and San Francisco's cable cars and bridges snap.
 

What is the apocalyptic future of our gambling meccas?

In Las Vegas, a new rat pack takes over, wax figures of celebrities melt and iconic hotels crumble. In Atlantic City, the ocean tears apart casinos, but the boardwalk refuses to be destroyed.
 

In this episode we explore the fate of mankind's machinery of war. A sunken nuclear missile explodes, Pearl Harbor comes under renewed attacks, snow causes urban avalanches and dairy cows are threatened. Featured within this episode are Denver, Hawaii and a mysterious abandoned island near New York City.
 

With oil refineries turning into time bombs, explore the post-apocalyptic fate of our cars, planes and roads.

In the Motor City, harsh northern winters dismantles auto headquarters. While in Texas, the Alamo succumbs to a new invader.

While automobiles suffer a deadly fate, animals adapt: armadillos spread, some dogs rekindle their hunting instincts and long-horn cattle flourish once again.
 

In the final episode of Life After People, destructive waters overtake the world we leave behind. Rain floods New Orleans again and when power goes out in the city's aquarium, it spells doom for thousands of animals. Corrosion from rain brings down Seattle's Space Needle, while humidity in the Middle East wrecks Dubai's space-age structures.