In 1920, radical Christian Eberhard Arnold founded the Bruderhof in war-torn Germany. Today, nine Bruderhof communities - six in the eastern United States, two in England, and one in Australia - are home to more than 3,000 members.

Take a hayride with a Brethren family, have a snack with a remarkable man named Jack, and pay a visit to Branson - the heartland's leading tourist trap. Encounter the personalities and realities that continue to shape Ozark culture.

Life & Death Row in Texas. Texas has the highest execution rate in the United States. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Texas has performed a total of 241 executions by lethal injection.

Rice provides 25 to 85 percent of the calories in the daily diet of 2.7 billion Asians. 520 million metric tons of rice are harvested in 1 year. For human beings it is the number one food crop. Large portions of the world's wheat and corn crops go to feeding livestock whereas rice is mainly for human consumption.

Suriname is a rain forest country difficult to define. A rich mix of people and languages as well as the isolation of the coastal dwellers from the forest people contribute to its mystique.

In the heart of Mali, West Africa there lives a tribe called the Dogon. Famous for their art and cosmology, they live around a 200-kilometer cliff band known as the Bandiagarra.

Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Nickel, Uranium and Platinum forms the list of minerals that are still in high demand in this country, but must now be extracted from the earth without repeating the disasters of the past.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans generate more than 220 million tons of trash each year. Approximately 28.2% of the nation's trash is recycled.

Visit the plantations, seaports and manufacturing plants. Meet the locals, laborers and banana tycoons.

Sprinkle some salt, stomp your feet, and feast your eyes on the largest athletes any sport has to offer. Going back to a time before the written word, Sumo wrestling has thrilled the Japanese throughout the centuries.

From twilight on Fridays until high noon on Sundays all summer long, you will find a good time at any one of the Navajo Rodeos kicking up dust on the Navajo reservation in Arizona.

Professor Willy Bemis tries to convince the hoard of burly sport fisherman surrounding him to give up their exotic catch in the name of science. He is, as noted writer John McPhee put it, "begg'n fish."

Intimate or enormous. Rural or urban. Gaudy or quaint. Label it what you may, but "going to the fair" has been an American institution for over 150 years.

Times Square, New York City - home of the most broadcast New Year's Eve ritual and more signs and lights than one could imagine electricity could power. A dense conglomeration of commerce that attracts tourists from all over the world.

Technology has quadrupled the world's seafood catch since 1950, but empty baskets is all some have to show for hours of toil in a local fishing ground. Travel the world and capture a glimpse of the fisherman's struggle for survival and efforts not to deplete the ocean's bounty.

Between 250 AD and 900 AD, the Maya had one of the greatest civilizations in the Western Hemisphere. Explore ancient ruins, attend a religious festival and meet many modern-day Maya.

Twenty-three million years ago an asteroid slammed into what is now the Canadian Arctic at 40,000 miles an hour. The impact created a blast of energy equivalent to a nuclear explosion. Within a radius of almost one hundred miles, plant and animal life ceased to exist.

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: 310,000 acres, home to an awe inspiring array of wildlife and host to nearly 3.5 million tourists annually. Located in the northwest corner of Wyoming, below Yellowstone, the Teton Range stretches along a 40-mile-long fault beneath the Rockies.

New Caledonia is known as the "Paris of the Pacific", hosting chic French boutiques and fine French cuisine. A struggle for independence from France has been an ongoing theme for years, climaxing in 1980 and a resolve to take place in 2014.

Take a visual journey through Japan, see exotic gardens with thousand year old pagodas, carp fish bred to imitate "living flowers", and be a spectator to a country full of festivals celebrating people, land and life.

Big numbers are associated with H20 - water. It covers 70% of the earth's surface. Ninety-Seven percent of the planet's water supply is salt water. Only three percent is fresh water. Two-thirds of this is frozen as ice. That leaves 1 percent for human consumption.

Nature's Medicine: When illness strikes, millions of us turn to nature's medicine cabinet for relief. Some examples include: