Kim Brooks goes all the way out to Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, to find out how a small group of people are using music to turn fortunes around for an island society struggling to regain its footing.
Laila Gohar visits Puerto Rico to investigate a nascent, burgeoning local agricultural movement that's bringing good produce, and great local food, back to an island that had lost touch with its agrarian roots.
Kim Brooks takes on Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold, traveling to a small town in the Dominican Republic to look into claims of widespread contamination and sickness in the local community.
Mike Tyson travels to Suriname to discover a long-running tradition of songbird contests, where small birds are pitted against each other in singing battles.
Rudy Mancuso revisits his Brazilian ancestry and meets the people behind Porta dos Fundos, a sketch comedy troupe taking political and social commentary to the next level in Rio de Janeiro.
Jason Silva travels deep into the state of Oaxaca, Mexico to learn about the roots of psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms and later, to see what scientists are doing to apply the powers of psilocybin to medical treatment in the modern era.
Carmen Carrera travels to Sao Paulo, Brazil - a place where rates of violence against LGBT people are some of the highest in the world - during the annual gay pride parade to find out what's happening, what life is like for young transgendered people in Brazil, and what the future might hold.
Mia Maestro heads to Buenos Aires, Argentina to meet the young people starting companies and inventing new technology even as the country struggles through a recession that has last for nearly their entire lives.
Michaela de Prince goes to Cuba to learn about how the kind of high-level ballet practiced there has been so important to the Cuban Revolution, the role race relations have played in the art form, and what's poised to happen now that the country is opening up to the US and the world.
