The UK is seeing a psychedelic boom, with LSD and magic mushroom use rising sharply and claims they could revolutionize mental health treatment. We explore the trend and the risks of self-guided use in unregulated settings.

The Arranged Gay Marriage Bureau promises to match LGBTQ+ clients with partners for a high fee. But as customers follow the process, optimism turns to suspicion when the service appears to be a scam.

In Honduras’ deadliest city, a funeral business runs nonstop as violence never slows in San Pedro Sula.

Zing Tsjeng explores how many of the UK’s famous country homes were built on colonial and slave trade wealth. Heritage organisations are now uncovering their unvarnished history.

In parts of North India, unmarried boys live separately in “baithaks,” only returning home for meals. We travel Rajasthan and Haryana to explore this rarely documented system of gender-segregated living.

Claims of narco-terrorism link drug trafficking from Pakistan into India’s Punjab for decades. As enforcement increased in Punjab, neighboring Himachal Pradesh became heavily affected by heroin. The film explores how a tourist state spiraled into an opioid crisis.

Will Tilghman tries to pay his $965 rent by taking strange gigs from New York Craigslist. He tackles odd jobs like photo shoots, product testing, and bizarre impersonations. The film explores whether gig work can actually cover real living costs.

After Burning Man, former alcoholic Shaft embraced life as a unicorn and started a glittery, polyamorous movement in London. But clashes with reality soon left followers disillusioned and Shaft’s motives in question.

Taji heads to Las Vegas with a risky blackjack plan that quickly leaves him broke. Desperate to recover, he embarks on a strange detour — from a haunted motel to a blind date coached by a male escort and guided by a mind reader.

Skatopia, an 88-acre skatepark in Ohio, is known for chaos, skateboarding, and its Museum of Skateboarding History with over 12,000 boards. Founder Brewce Martin faces a changing of the guard as his son returns to help guide Skatopia’s next chapter.

Europe is seeing a synthetic drug boom, with 3-MMC emerging as the new party drug of choice. Zach Shucklin travels to Berlin and Amsterdam to explore its effects, the underground trade, and its impact on the continent’s nightlife.

We sail to the North Pacific Gyre, collecting point for all of the ocean's flotsam and home of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: a mythical, Texas-sized island made entirely of our trash.