
Hidden Beneath the Cities
2026 · National Geographic · 1 season
S01E10 · Secret School and Concealed Castle Cemetery
Sat, 23 May, 12:00 pm
Visit a strange wood-lined tunnel beneath a Copenhagen train station. Locate one of North America's earliest schools for Black children in Virginia, excavate a warrior cemetery in Finland, and unearth a women-only burial plot beneath a Welsh castle.
About
Hidden Beneath the Cities uncovers the extraordinary worlds lying just below modern urban centers. Beneath the streets of stone, soil and concrete exist hidden realms shaped by survival, ritual and imagination. Uncovers the extraordinary worlds that exist beneath major urban centres, from the tombs and wartime shelters of Naples to the manmade Royston Cave in Hertfordshire, England.
Episodes
- E01
Underground Cities and Secret Chambers
Sat, 25 AprUncover a vast underground city in Turkey that served as a refuge for Christians and Jews. Investigate a mysterious chalk chamber in England, visit a secret Etruscan complex beneath an Italian wine cellar, and map an ancient tunnel network in Iran.
- E02
Crystal Cathedrals and Buried Bunkers
Sat, 25 AprMarvel at the crystal caves and underground chapels of Poland's Wieliczka salt mine. Tour a secret Cold War bunker in England, unearth a 3,400-year-old royal settlement in Egypt, and try to solve the mystery of China's enigmatic Longyou Caves.
- E03
Hidden Hypogeum and Lost Letters
Sat, 2 MayInvestigate a tomb in Naples that may contain a prince who inspired the legend of Dracula. Read the desperate letters of Jewish rebels hidden in an Israeli cave, tour a 6,000-year-old labyrinth in Malta, and see the oldest human burial in Africa.
- E04
Tunnels and Tombs
Sat, 2 MayCrawl through a notorious brick-lined tunnel system in a historic Florida neighbourhood. Open a window into the lives of elite Greek families in Naples, explore a three-story underground city in Iran, and find 2nd-century barracks buried in Rome.
- E05
Labyrinths and Legends
Sat, 9 MayExplore a labyrinth built beneath Washington, D.C., by an eccentric entomologist. Admire a fresco-filled Roman mausoleum, spot intricate chambers carved into Colombia's volcanic rock, and see a sprawling network of hand-dug tunnels in Liverpool.
- E06
Subterranean Secrets and Forgotten Foundations
Sat, 9 MayWalk the service tunnels hidden beneath Emperor Hadrian's lavish villa in Italy. Uncover a chilling mass grave from the Thirty Years' War in Germany, find the foundations of a Roman basilica in London, and glimpse Neolithic life on a Danish island.
- E07
Buried Battleship and Viking Victims
Sat, 16 MayExamine a Revolutionary War-era ship found in the rubble of the World Trade Center. Uncover a mass grave of Viking settlers in Oxford, visit the resistance bunkers of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and tour a necropolis full of burial jars in Corsica.
- E08
Bones Beneath and Coffins & Coins
Sat, 16 MayDig beneath the Treasury in Petra, Jordan, to find a sealed tomb containing 12 skeletons; unearth a hoard of coins hidden during a Scottish massacre, question the purpose of an empty grave in Peru, and inspect a Bronze Age leader's coffin in England.
- E09
Subterranean Seoul and Railway Revealed
Sat, 23 MayDiscovering a massive underground chamber hiding under the Seoul subway; visiting a medieval knight's limestone tomb in Poland; examining Roman ruins beneath a church in England; pondering the identity of a 10-million-year-old fossil in Los Angeles.
- E10
Secret School and Concealed Castle Cemetery
Sat, 23 MayVisit a strange wood-lined tunnel beneath a Copenhagen train station. Locate one of North America's earliest schools for Black children in Virginia, excavate a warrior cemetery in Finland, and unearth a women-only burial plot beneath a Welsh castle.









