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[Music] [Music] our search for the most mysterious places on earth leads us to chuan Lu in southeast China this village is located on a plateau at 1,800 meters high it hasn't rained here for the last three years many inhabitants have left the village of 50 souls the remaining locals live on maize cultivation and cattle breeding there are no other sources of income it's not just a serious problem for the farmer Xiu songyang the whole village is suffering the harvests fail there's hardly any drinking water saving water is life saving here every single drop of the valuable liquid is used multiple times trey songz wife washes herself with the leftovers of the cooking water recal exit and finally waters the two family pigs that way the water is recycled three times [Music] in the beginning the inhabitants could fetch water from the three village wells but they ran dry half a year ago [Music] [Music] first she song and his elder brother explored the surrounding area to no avail their despair made them explore even further surroundings giving up unthinkable their last ray of hope tales of a subterranean Lake they finally found it eight kilometers away Tom told shadow that's home years ago would kill him out won't you Shakuni the cave is well hidden the entrance lines deeply concealed in an earth fissure the brothers have to find their way through the steep narrow rocks in the meantime they have built ladders of the most difficult passages because the path down to the water leads them 15 metres below the ground what did ya lenoir we loot musical Meucci mustard powder by the lebanese shimmy now we tune into tourists in with Ryder Shalini no don't shall issue this room if I'm a media commentator you can see it three long ladders lead deep into the Earth's interior for 15 minutes the brothers climbed down deeper and deeper into the narrow cave without a torch you can't see your hand in front of your face they finally reached their destination a small subterranean Lake she song and his brother use a canister to ladle the valuable water 20 litres is all the men are able to carry up the ladders but that's not enough of a whole village that's why various villagers come here three to four times every day to ladle the precious water together they make sure no one in the village is left without water the brothers have ensured the survival of the village community won't matter but um even me no question yeah and what did about he's a ninja a woman is she when she's no it's usually so usually salient issue not evening hauling me the heavy canisters are on their way towards daylight she song and his brother are carrying 20 liters of water on their backs a risky undertaking on these narrow ladders but even if it's more than arduous she song and his brother have granted the most arid inhabited place on earth hope and a second chance with their fine because now the few remaining inhabitants once again have the water they need to survive after three years without rain the people in Trung you are happy to have finally found a reliable source of water on our search for the most mysterious places we continue on to the dirtiest place in the world which is located in Russia at first sight Chad chintz like any other Russian city but appearances are deceptive Alexey kiselev of Greenpeace Russia knows chat chintz is one of the dirtiest and most toxic places in the world from ordinary shoe polish to the highly dangerous mustard gas the industrial plants have been producing toxic chemicals in the center of the city for the past century together with the local dmitriy alexei regularly analyzes the implications there are still no disposal guidelines surplus products and toxic wastes simply end up in the air the ground or in the stream behind the factories [Music] just 800 meters away from the city center there is pitch-black water coming out of pipes and flowing directly into the oka a tributary of the river Volga the inhabitants are helpless in the face of the contamination in 2011 four children died of poisoning here after swimming in the Blackwater Yemen is objective reductive over the years lakes containing toxic waste have formed more than 60 pitch black mud holes yeah no science no education this is dangerous and that either device that we need to leave this place as soon as we can because it's dangerous to be here every breath hurts your lungs Ashley need hot spit what's better it's lit supreme on my wood stove what you storage this machine uses the worst toxic waste zone in the city the so-called black hole it's the only Black Lake in church in ski which is secured by bit of barbed wire the only place even the government considers to be too dangerous nobody knows how deep the strongly corrosive Lake which is near a former Plexiglas factory is not to mention what's inside those hundreds of rusted through barrels the black hole probably Russia's greatest environmental crime to this day this is this place probably the most polluted place in world because according to different research it contains from 3.5 mm to 10 minutes of every attempt to examine the water precisely has so far failed the last independent laboratory had to close down after the analysis a broken glass of water from the black hole contaminated the whole building the Russian government has promised to look into the problem it wants to identify the substances and clear the lake but nothing has happened so far apart from Dimitri and Alexei no one cares about the pollution every third inhabitant dies of cancer Alexei is angry yes in Europe to have this dump also to have down to exists we saw it in an easily a couple of years ago when managers of polyvinyl chloride company was jailed because of contamination dumped tolerance open reservoirs these people needs to be jailed as well because I mean having such strong contamination just in them just hundred four hundred kilometres far from Moscow that's ridiculous the local people have to live with the chemical contamination even if they try to avoid places like the black hole the bottom of these lakes are sandy so the chemical substances penetrate the bottom of the lake and pollute the groundwater mixed with the poisoned water of the oka the brew reaches the pipes as drinking water even if they know the water is twice toxic they don't have a choice Dmitry even uses the toxic brew to cook for himself and his family on a daily basis for most people moving is not an option often the money hardly suffices for survival they couldn't even afford an apartment somewhere else the average life expectancy in church in ski is forty five years the only remaining hope is that things in the dirtiest place in the world might change in order to reach our next mysterious place we have to head towards lofty heights it's situated in the USA at a height of one thousand nine hundred and seventeen meters Mount Washington is a prohibited area whoever wants to enter has to hold a special permit like associate professor andreas Fitch and his research team from the University of Bochum Germany get as much stuff we meter - is a key smile if I have in stick the right indicator flake the rind of this movies on kind of [ __ ] it's minus 20 degrees Celsius at the base station further up it's even colder a 13 kilometer ride on a snowcat are awaiting the students an ascent with the heavy gear would be too dangerous they haven't reached their destination yet but even here the wind howls across the plane at a hundred and twenty kilometers per hour hurricane force the research station is right at the top the team wants to look the hurricane in the eye for a whole week Mount Washington's special geographical location makes it the windiest place on earth it lies at the center of three storm tracks that's why it's always windy the bear white mountain ridge pushes the layers of air together causing a bottleneck the wind masses have to flow through it the so-called venturi effect 120 days of storm per year at top speeds of up to 240 kilometers per hour [Music] to demonstrate the effects the extreme winds have the researchers carry out an experiment wrapped in warm clothes five students meet a rather unusual challenge they intend to have breakfast at the windiest place in the world today's wind speed just fifty kilometres an hour as soon as the milk touches the students clothes it freezes over it's colder than minus 20 degrees Celsius the windchill factor turns it into minus 40 on April the 12th 1934 researchers measured the fastest wind of all time here 231 miles per hour which equates to a speed of 372 kilometers per hour our journey continues on to a mysterious and deserted place in Germany another mystery lies in Peenemunde er on a German island in the Baltic Sea called you Saddam this ruin was top-secret 73 years ago this is where the Nazis prepared a new dimension of warfare a magic weapon in the war against the Allies today this area is strictly off-limits nevertheless photos of the inside circulate on the internet fascinating pictures which these two women have taken a shine to a net and Teresa had to wait three months for their permit today they are finally allowed to do a photo shoot on the premises but the adventure is not without danger that's why this guide will accompany them plus they have to wear helmets Bhavana is avoid this community avoid it I'd wonder since the elephant prowess and one person see all Fiona tan inverse friendship in spite of the dangers the women are looking forward to seeing this forgotten place a file of knowledge for America fifty vikas China of a raincoat and also historians I wouldn't be so sure streaming off some dirt hydro to honor my have fought food first of all Philip almond shows his guests the way into the building impressed Annette and Teresa examined the huge ruin how old might the building be why is it so large when was it deserted as this site click send in a ravine mm-hmm what's ask my suits are springing on just happened to me recently so hey it's it's it's yeah so sure about that you deserve you know someone had said he often and echinus had some variety ice fence bands and how did you not or yeah so present upwards Angus music avoiders and taught some UI boomer most on fan some kleiner Johnson only a few details remind us of what took place here 75 years ago there are relics of train tracks on the floor does that mean an actual train passed through this industrial Cathedral what kind of machines were attached to these concrete bases one thing is for sure the war has left its mark here annette and theresa start preparing for their photo shoot soon a model who they want to shoot in front of this unique setting will be arriving model Paola is already wearing her costume for the shoot she is here for the first time as well and marvels at how spooky this place looks it is in fact the location of the infamous Army Research Center of the Nazis this is the largest building still intact in front of it a rocket case this is where the first large rocket of the world was developed the much trumpeted silver bullet which was supposed to help achieve the end seek ultimate victory at a time when Germany and its regime were lying in ruins serve an object DeHoff no tahaafe numb to know a technology didn't answer our 6000 clicked or not convenient so cannon interfere what it is a really often campy treatment the effort was in fact gigantic the Nazis invested half a billion rush mark in the build-up of the Army Research Center and the developing of the rocket the famous engineer vana von Braun and his team needed many many launching attempts to finally turn the first large-scale rocket of the world into a nightmare for thousands of innocent civilians [Applause] in 1942 the engineers celebrated their breakthrough the v2 reached almost five times the speed of sound and flew as far as 84 kilometers the rocket was fueled by an explosive mixture alcohol and liquid oxygen it's working protac writes and Vincent on endlessly guess our stuff arrghh estate in grossen industry in lamb it's grossing compress one for these gigantic amounts they needed appropriately huge factories the construction of the factory building took more than two years the facility was finally put into operation in August 1942 more than 70 years later at this once so threatening place the photo shoot is about to begin at the exact same spot where Annette is now staging her model once stood five huge power units we show the present and the past in one picture an air separation plant produced the fuel for the rocket the air was compressed under extreme pressure and at the same time cooled down until it liquefied and the oxygen could be separated from the nitrogen the entire building was filled with machines pressure pipes and tanks 15 tons of oxygen were produced every day in fact the plant was so huge it had room for a whole steam train pulling several pressure tank wagons the liquid oxygen was loaded onto the trains and then transported to the place where the Rockets were being fueled five tons of liquid oxygen filled the tank of such a rocket the v2 was 14 meters high with a filled up tank it weighed almost 13 tons its powerplant burnt the incredible amount of 125 liters of fuel per second as a comparison a jumbo jet burns less than three litres of kerosene the located here entitled what day the CCNA enorme technician innovati on flight across the transport revolutes on this transaction that's a Behrman death mr. Ferguson manhatta and Nancy fabric arisia steel winter fabrication mid-february Schmidt lineage date during the last two years of the war the Nazis fired more than 3000 v2 rockets at England France and Belgium around 8,000 people were killed even more people died during the production process of the v2 historians estimate that up to 20,000 forced laborers died as well this is program was sought soonish vanished onto our 1800 s s VAR DET the consonant sounds like a fling a soliton by tau R by T average and leave him so much then they even get rated available today the historic technical museum is just a few hundred meters away from the oxygen plant the large building is the former power plant in which the enormous amounts of current for the production of oxygen were produced [Music] the story of what happened after World War two is also told here in the looming Cold War the Americans had no qualms about employing the German scientists in the USA the Nazi engineers were allowed to continue working unmolested and the Soviet Union also built their own rocket Arsenal on the basis of the captured v2 technology thus is know my fact I'm from you're asking M de Guiche east across rocket Emily she stood Trager Arkadin in suede and loss back to the photo shoot in the oxygen plant Annette is happy with the results even though the whole thing feels awkward considering the history of this place fear of the shootings shattered - flash - mr. Knowles about us has had and this of had even afterwards here so for anxiety sister tabby but wooden what will happen in the future historians would like to preserve this place in its present state as a shattered monument which visitors may not enter but take a look at so far there is not enough money to preserve the ruin but the oxygen plant could soon turn into a valuable memorial of the Nazis megalomania our next mysterious place is situated right here in Bangladesh a meadow strewn with thousands of vehicles so-called bicycle rickshaws what is peculiar is that this place is right in the middle of a residential area [Music] our investigations have revealed that the bicycle rickshaw graveyard is in Bangladesh normally rituals are the number one means of transportation here as this suddenly changed and if so why in Bangladesh there are 1000 inhabitants per square kilometer the capital Dhaka has 14 million inhabitants traffic is correspondingly chaotic gigantic columns of cards but also a great many bicycle rickshaws the closer we get to the city centre the more we encounter we get out of the car at a popular crossing do the inhabitants recognize the meaning of this picture we asked our way around no maybe a traffic policeman is able to help they are all over the place and they also regularly stop rickshaw riders some vehicles are even immobilized were they driving too fast maybe here we can find out more about it [Music] we are kindly invited to the office and we suspect working conditions for policemen are very different here the government is chronically broke our med rippen has been a traffic policeman for ten years he can be of assistance if you want to get this place then with the company vehicle and this is what a police motorcycle looks like in Bangladesh the state pays Ahmed the equivalent of 100 euros a month an average income which is just about enough to survive a rival at the neighbouring district an entrance road to a housing area and in fact here they are lying around most of the rickshaws looked like they were fully functional there must be tens of thousands of them piles of rickshaws simply ditched in the courtyard it's impossible to tell if anyone is still going to make use of them right in the middle children play this used to be their backyard playground until it was turned into a rickshaw graveyard [Music] they can hear if it fell down football which each other kills disorder total manage a Jedi hilt [ __ ] why do the police immobilize such a vast amount of rickshaws we are invited to accompany our med on his next police operation a year ago the rickshaws were banned from the much frequented main roads some have to pay a fine and just continue on afterwards but some are turned upside down why those leeches are illegal fake papers unable to move in integrity which is in fact very tricky more and more accidents are occurring between motorized vehicles and rickshaws everyday 2,000 new cars are registered in Dhaka in order for them to be able to move freely the rickshaws are banned to the side streets there they jam the roads at present there are about 400,000 rickshaws on the move in Dhaka but only ninety thousand of them hold a license but it's the easiest way to find work in the city we accompany Suraj Mia he's been holding a license for many years [Music] and since thousands of illegal rickshaws are competing as well prices have even gone down Suraj's most important tool is bail the locals don't use the bail to express their anger but to draw the other road users attention to themselves but hardly anyone looks in their rear mirror here [Music] Suraj has to cope with the dangers of his job every day [Music] a high risk for a minimal wage on top of that continuous trouble with the police if he sometimes does use a banned road the first customer of today 50 cents then to ladies 70 cents Shiraz transports people around town for 10 hours a day his daily wage not even 3 euros life in the capital is too expensive for a rickshaw rider that's why she Raj and his wife live on the other side of the river 10 years ago this was all fields and villages now you find lots of illegal slums but the government can't simply pull them down there are simply too many people seeking their fortune here this is sure ahsha's home a typical backyard slum ten ritual families live here 50 people in total they cook outside life in the tightest of spaces his wife is only suraj sweetens his tough everyday life by chewing betel nut mints betelnut is the everyday drug number one in Bangladesh it cheers you up too bad it's bad for your teeth and is highly addictive Canada model of taraj also has to pay for his rickshaw it's not his but he hires it from a lesser to whom he has to give about a third of his earnings on average [Applause] for this sure are received a vehicle with a bicycle drive fossil technical equipment and a colorfully ornated guest area the bicycle rickshaw was invented by a British priest it hasn't changed appearance since then Bishu Sawa is sure ahsha's elder cousin he is over 70 and has been riding rickshaws in Dhaka for 50 years he experienced how the work became harder and the rickshaw riders of Dhaka they are facing dire straits and it looks like there is little hope for improvement the poor rural population migrated to the city in growing numbers the amount of illegal rickshaws increases faster and faster and the police are losing more and more control of the situation there isn't much space left on the former playground for additional rickshaws [Music] even I can evacuate dumping Alicia Rogov Oliver with addiction Jay diksha Juan Carlos Potter might be dead how is your auto so again it's a level at the calendula no no mr. Kotter I will have to take a bungee tow that's the end of this rather sad story about this mysterious place from Bangladesh our journey goes on to Poland now our destination is the city of Novus all on our journey suddenly this appears over the treetops a gigantic statue of the Polish Pope John Paul it was built in the city of Nova Sol originally we didn't intend to come here to this gigantic Pope it is standing in a pilgrimage city called Jenko it's quite a long detour but since we're here anyway we may as well stop to look at it who in nova sold built this spectacular statue the statue of the pope is situated in an amusement park a staff member tells us it's the tallest in the world just short of 14 meters and completely Hollow 90% of the Polish people are Catholic and deeply religious they adore their late pope and are happy about his canonization the statue was even officially blessed after its erection in 2013 and the employee is able to tell us who in nova sol made it back on the road we can hardly believe our eyes another giant statue this time it's the highest Jesus in the world with 36 meters it's even higher than the famous one in Rio de Janeiro on site we are told that the priest who had it built lies buried at the foot of the hill but the giant Jesus is not made of plastic it's made of cement and wasn't made in nova sol but one thing is for certain the Polish have a knack for gigantic statues finally we're in nova sol we have an appointment with the production manager of the plant but we've lost our way once more and end up on this scary graveyard for figures the watchdog seemed to be quite alive though let's get out of here after a few phone calls it finally works out this is Macao the production manager of the company who built the statue of the Pope but before we look at the production Michelle wants to show us Nova Seoul's landmark the largest garden gnome statue in the world we can hardly believe it it's in the Guinness Book of Records and a tourist magnet the giant gnomes are standing in an amusement park full of figures the entrance is free but how has Nova Sol become the capital of statues wasn't me into a public Nova so div statue applaud sighs no [ __ ] - now just an average summer robichek Mazzara between some post our coach that is to appearance I'm going to do some Castillo córdova moving his ass tower on that she goes to the bandoneon check bottle coasters to film the momentous tower coach that I've been to fear magnetic Minnesota made it we finally arrived at the company which makes these figures their portfolio covers a total of a thousand different models [Music] in this room new figures are in the making a total of 25,000 a year this Empire is grinding giant Christmas tree balls as decoration for department stores this teapot is for a large manufacturer of ceramics and this ice cream cone will soon be standing in front of a German coffee shop the still homeless rhino is destined for an English amusement park all these cows go to France as part of a worldwide art project even dr. Goran suggests a bars Autobody takraw Ian I've insisted I should I only wash into France usually Hojo in a product I didn't say I do draw Park of coop we have enjoy our package export Romania door everything started with these garden gnomes the company still has some larger models on offer but meanwhile the garden gnomes are being produced for far less money in the Philippines the Polish are unable to compete with their dumping prices [Music] Takaya produc we say Bardo do geometric figure is Thomas Ava's Pradesh Napa Mia's owners Paul civil European blah - Mia Ruby me figure Viejo's me roof Masato honey Alison - Doozer figura put individualism Eugenia a very individual hot dog figure is in the making here the first production step is a drawing because each customer wants to have his figure a little bit different after that a first clay draft is modeled that sometimes takes weeks of handcraft it is scanned in order to create a 3d model that's necessary to later be able to produce the figure in every possible size [Music] this machine costing 250,000 euros produces several models made of styrofoam or wood in varying sizes these prototypes also serve as patterns for the casting molds the actual figures are made in old-fashioned handcraft these employees are in the process of mixing resin with this they also fill in the molds and spread the pulp evenly this has to be done quickly since the sticky resin dries within minutes the glass fiber mats go on top saturated in a mix of synthetic resin and lime powder which makes the surface nice and smooth that too must be done quickly that's why several men work on it simultaneously this production step is called laminating this is how glass fiber reinforced plastic colloquially called fiberglass is produced it is weatherproof and resistant after all the figures are made for being outside by the way boats are made in exactly the same way next the mouldings are put together now it becomes clear that the figures will be hollow and for that reason relatively light but it still doesn't look like a hot dog more like an egg of an alien after half an hour the men opened the structure and the figure gradually becomes apparent the men wear gloves because the fiberglass is still very hot a chemical reaction of the plastic ingredients [Music] our hotdog man is born the structures are not thrown away but safely kept or future figures our freshly shaped hot dog man still has protruding resin remains at the joints [Music] after it has cooled off an employee removes those and neatly grinds them down now color comes into play the first step is the sprain yet another employee is responsible for the precision work lips eyes tongue the 50 stars of the US flag and many small details everything hand-painted that takes several hours we didn't expect such an effort our cameraman has to sit down at some point everything fits into place 10 people have worked for several weeks on this figure the owner of the German snack bar will pay just about 400 euros per piece soon our hotdog man will stimulate people's appetite and now we know the secret of our little Polish village our next mysterious place leads us to China this is how we normally see China huge housing blocks with tiny apartments but we are looking for a village allegedly the richest village in the world after a two-hour trip we have arrived and even from far away the village looks quite unusual the entrance to the village looks special to the writing on the golden arch reads who Archie the first village under the sky the richest and best Chinese village what does that mean we are curious apparently we are not the only ones near the entrance we spot a group of tourists we join them to get a first impression for euros for a ticket and we're on board the richest village in China is a true tourist magnet two and a half million visitors come here every year and marvel at for cheese prosperity in fact everything looks the same from the outside but for now we are not allowed to step outside and take a closer look the chinese tourists don't mind they are delighted Tipene - selfie time purely out by jia hao cat why do you hurt your mayor grantee to be on the road until forty years ago who Archie was an ordinary village but then industrialization began people became incredibly rich and built hundreds of mansions the Chinese government considered this a fine example and declared who achieved to be a role model for all a communist model village communism means everyone works for everyone else all are equal and that's why everyone feels fine after three hours the tour ends on the city tower from up here we enjoy a bizarre view more than 200 mansions all exactly alike but what did the houses look like from the inside we encounter the first obstacle China's Communist Party keeps the model village like a state treasure it takes endless discussions to convince the keepers to grant us permission to travel to the village centre and they keep following us around how much she's residential area every day between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. the inhabitants have to listen to propaganda blaring from loudspeakers [Music] who are chief seemingly a closely guarded secret we want to discover step by step how do people live [Applause] the Chinese government sends us to visit an especially selected family they live at the edge of the village at work she's brand-new luxury housing area built for the best and most hard-working inhabitants of all our hosts the chings like everyone else in work she they own four TVs and luxury equipment the amount of money each single family in quark she has at their disposal around 1 million won a bit more than one hundred thousand euros by the way in the communist model village everything is owned by the village community which means if you leave for work she you lose it all the cars the house the money the inhabitants abundance exists only on paper [Music] who are Ching shares the 600 square meter mansion with her daughter and her son-in-law long she - Hoshi haven't seen his fondest father and she's hardly found how was the lab Leo Buckley you have a digital digital watches her long Shing works as a chief engineer in one of the 80 factories at the edge of the village all the inhabitants of what she have top office jobs in senior management two bathrooms on each floor are absolutely normal for these luxury mansions long Shing tells us that everyone in - Archie works seven days a week mostly in the steel tobacco and textile industry so who works on the assembly line long chings responds cheap contract workers from all over China tell hi seeing Asia took a cooker goons hunters a fighter now ha tentacles in Santiago and Dhaka we don't see it you know why she's been wanting house we've seen their hotel finally say hi diva so he's really shy she totally rather booked us is not a good moment all of us we just watch the flip side of the coin there are 50,000 workers living on the edge of the village they slave away at the assembly line and get a nice view of the abundance on the other side the Communist Party allows us to visit the factories to be more precise a textile factory is specially selected for us this is where carpets and synthetic fibers are produced [Music] every factory worker works 365 days a year and earns about 200 euros a month more than the average Chinese but considerably less than the inhabitants of work sheet that's a Muslim I was gonna tell you hakuna coma see Jana happened una semana yesterday we are very supportive up another need a phone number to the to Anita a macular third pursues a machine washable allegedly every hard-working worker is given permission to live in quaci after many years of work everyone's working but only a chosen few are rich that doesn't seem to be the perfect communism we want to know who is responsible for all of this so we apply for an audience with village chief Bhushan taking their time until the photo tears aha tato for you taglioti from her main Iacocca job that she is at the end Tatia Bashir sir you don't go to meet hashing super Mirage it's on the cont NVIDIA returned to Hong Kong Phooey so that's why what she builds more and more tourist attractions an exact copy of the Parisian triumphal arch and of Beijing's Forbidden City ten kilometers of the Chinese wall and a replica of Sydney's Opera House [Music] work she's latest symbol a gigantic luxury hotel here we experience a touch of Dubai the tower was completed right on time for the 50th anniversary of work she the hotel is 328 meters tall the same height as the tallest skyscraper in Beijing [Music] all of this was built thanks to fast industrialization and with the help of the contract workers from out of town the Communist model village work she chosen by the Chinese government to be the first village under the sky to be the best village in all of China

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Length: 52min 42sec (3162 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 07 2020