Travel down Baja, Mexico, from San Diego to Cabo. First stop is a tour halfway down to find the amazing gray whales. Board tiny boats and actually come right up to these huge, gentle creatures as they swim around Scammon's Lagoon. Learn about this remote area of Mexico, including bizarre plants and Dr. Suess-looking cacti.

In March 1940, the author John Steinbeck and his friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts, sailed down the coast of California and Mexico to the Sea of Cortez. Their stated purpose was to document the creatures that inhabit shallow waters and tide pools on the margins of the Sea of Cortez. But it became much more. In these mysterious, phosphorescent waters, they sought an understanding of mankind's relationship to the natural world, and a wellspring of...

Go along with the Roberts family as they experience the real and wild Alaska. Visit the Alaskan Bush and explore ice museums at Chena Hot Springs in the Arctic circle. Visit a chocolate factory in Anchorage and take a dogsled ride with Iditarod musher Darios Martinez. Enjoy horseback riding along the frozen Kenai lake and dissect a squid at the Alaska Sea Life center, plus much more. Features three episodes.

The country of the rising sun, the Tokaèido or, literally "the road from the sea to the east," is the spine for the roadways around which modern Japan was created to put an end to the absolute power of the shoguns and the samurais. Today rites and traditions in Japan are rife with symbolism where every detail has significance, and where the tea ceremony, calligraphy and gastronomy are evidence of a lifestyle whose refinement has been pushed to its...