Every bridge, tunnel, dam, and airport has a story that doesn't make it into the ribbon-cutting ceremony — the century of failed attempts, the machines that shouldn't have worked, the budgets that spiraled 80% out of control, the near-disasters buried in the fine print.

How It's Actually Built goes behind the world's most ambitious engineering projects to tell the real story: how they were actually constructed, what very nearly went wrong, and what it truly cost — in money, time, and nerve — to get them built.

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