Deep in the jungles of Paraguay lies the failed Aryan utopia of Nueva Germania. Founded by Friederich Nietzsche’s sister Elisabeth in the 1880s and a refuge for Nazi “Angel of Death” Dr. Joseph Mengele after WWII, the original German population there has now dwindled to two toothless brothers who live in abject poverty and are rumored to be cannibals. We went to Nueva Germania to see the end of the family line. Starring: Derrick Beckles, Johnny Knoxville, David Woodard

Rio is a model of urbanity gone very, very wrong. The rich live in 20-story-tall seashells on white sand beaches and the poor live in dense, dirty slums where murdering your rival drug lord is as common a chore as taking out the trash. We took a tour and partied a little bit in the City of God favela. Starring: Trace Crutchfield, Elias Abreu Jr.

Twenty years after the nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl, we journeyed there to see the state of things in a town that now has a higher population of mutated wolves and bears than it does people. We visited the site itself and watched our Geiger counter’s readings go through the roof. Nuclear energy is clearly not the future, as the abandoned schools and empty homes of Chernobyl attest. Starring: Shane Smith, Pella Kagerman, Yuri Tartarchuck

Beirut can’t win. It had barely recovered from the tragic effects of a 15-year-long civil war and now it is the target of daily bombardments by the Israeli Air Force. Just before the bombing started we met with the notorious al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade in the city’s Palestinian refugee camps. We also sang and danced with the Fateh Boy Scouts, children who are being groomed to be the suicide bombers of tomorrow. Starring: Shane Smith, Spike Jonze, Jesse Pearson

Sources as reputable as Scientific American and the BBC believe that there may still be dinosaurs in the most remote jungles of the Congo. We sent some amateur cryptozoologists out there to look for the creature the local pygmies call Mokele-mbembe, or “he who stops the flow of rivers.” What they ended up experiencing in the Heart of Darkness must be seen to be believed. Starring: David Choe