
Abandoned Engineering
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological...
Abandoned Engineering
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.
Abandoned Engineering
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological...

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Episode 1: Silent Cities
Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leavin...

Episode 2: Mission: Space
We aim for the stars and find out why unwanted battleship guns allow the United States to gain vital...

Episode 3: Lost Bridges
Soaring across some of the widest rivers and deepest valleys on the planet, bridges have always been...

Episode 4: Ghost Ships
Exploring ship graveyards, including Scapa Flow in Orkney, where German warships were scuttled after...

Episode 5: Quest for Power
How Europe's most advanced power station became a film set. Plus, the structures made by scientific...

Episode 6: Roads to Nowhere
Hear how a crumbling hill in the Peak District and dunes in California caused the closure of two roa...

Episode 1: Hitler's Army Powerhouse
A dark past explains why the Pölitz Synthetic Fuel Plant in Northern Poland is now a derelict indust...

Episode 2: Britain's Sea Fort Complex
A strange group of rusting structures off the coast of England, a dilapidated mediaeval-style castle...

Episode 3: The Italian Dam Disaster
An abandoned concrete wall... five strange deserted structures. A lost escape route from nuclear Arm...

Episode 4: Battle of Britain Technology Facility
Learn about the strange-looking, derelict military facilities in Farnborough, which were once wind t...

Episode 5: The Abandoned Nazi Railway
The Canfranc Railway Station is an elaborate abandoned Nazi railway station built near a town of onl...

Episode 6: America's Jungle City
This week, find out why Fordlandia Rubber Town, a symbol of the American dream first established by...

Episode 7: Germany's Lost Warship
The Georg Thiele was a technological masterpiece, but it is a shipwreck, lost to the sea in a Norweg...

Episode 8: Lost Highway in the Rainforest
A lost highway in the Brazilian jungle, a forgotten bunker system in the French Alps and a man-made...

Episode 1: The Desert Ghost Fleet
The programme looks at a mysterious group of rusting ships stranded in an arid desert, a monstrous d...

Episode 2: The Underwater Prison
An abandoned prison beneath the water, a tunnel in the heart of a mountain, concrete towers hidden i...

Episode 3: The Siege Of Sarajevo
Concrete channels hidden in a mountaintop forest, a collapsing bridge, a marooned military base and...

Episode 4: Sabotage in the Mountains
A towering structure with an explosive past, a deserted cityscape, a mysterious top-secret facility...

Episode 5: Germany's D-Day Fortress
A devastated cliff-top ruin, an extraordinarily tall tower, a concrete structure stranded at sea and...

Episode 6: Hitler's Wonder Weapons Bunker
Hidden tunnels that saw a city prosper, a sunken wreck with a remarkable past, a concrete wartime do...

Episode 7: A Ghost Town In Spain
A village ruin, pitted and scarred, a ghostly fleet of ships, a bridge to nowhere hidden in a forest...

Episode 8: England's Abandoned Village
An eerie, empty country village which hides a sad secret, a mysterious tower battered by the element...

Episode 1: The World's Strangest Ghost Town
A settlement in Argentina destroyed by floods, a town in the US that has been erased, and a Soviet d...

Episode 2: Palace of Death
A seemingly endless concrete line stretching through the French countryside, which sits as a monumen...

Episode 3: Guernsey Nazi Towers
A little-known dark past explains the vast monolithic structures that dominate the small British isl...

Episode 4: Bodie USA
Projects include a maze of tunnels filled with haunting remains beneath the streets of Paris and a s...

Episode 5: Tunnel To The Underworld
A town in West Virginia that fell victim to the pace of change when steam trains became obsolete and...

Episode 6: Escobar's Ruin
Features a ruined compound in Colombia which was once home to Pablo Escobar and alien-looking struct...

Episode 7: Villa De Vecchi Rhodes
A formerly luxurious and strategic mountain-top villa on the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean t...

Episode 8: Pyramiden Norway
A strange-looking deserted town with an almost supernatural atmosphere on a remote Norwegian archipe...

Episode 9: Behind The Berlin Wall
Still standing today, a fierce-looking prison and an innocuous looking office building in Berlin wer...

Episode 10: Bannack USA
A sprawling Wild West ghost town sits peaceful and abandoned in Montana, USA, but is still haunted b...

Episode 11: Buckner Building Alaska
A vast snowcovered monster in the icy wilderness of southern Alaska, a ruined super structure that o...

Episode 12: 1936 Olympic Village Berlin
A pioneering complex marked by both glory and tragedy that's soon to be lost forever, and towering r...

Episode 1: Disaster in the Desert
The desert town that faced a disaster of biblical proportions. Plus, vast coastal ruins that reveal...

Episode 2: The Valkyrie Assassin
The underground base with the power to destroy a nation, the site linked with an attempt to kill a d...

Episode 3: Escape from Devil's Island
Claustrophobic prison cells that contain a story worthy of international acclaim, and a vast mountai...

Episode 4: Top Secret Nuclear Arsenal
A secretive underground base that concealed the power to destroy nations, and a sprawling industrial...

Episode 5: A Nation Torn Apart
Including an exploration of a marooned iron-clad structure in Portland, off the coast of England, th...

Episode 6: Ghosts of the Swamp
Including an exploration of forgotten relics from the defence of America's homeland, at Fort Jackson...

Episode 7: Death Behind Bars
An American prison for the violent and deranged with links to an infamous cult leader, and a caverno...

Episode 8: Behind Enemy Lines
An Albanian village home to Allied secret agents, devastated for resisting the Nazi war machine, and...

Episode 1: The Lost Pirate City
What happened to an infamous pirate city in Jamaica? Also, a grim gulag in Croatia and a Louisiana p...

Episode 2: Forbidden Island
Examining a ghost island once belonging to a secretive country on the fringes of Europe. Also, a hau...

Episode 3: Blast Zone
Within a dense Polish woodland sits a forgotten complex with an explosive history. Also, grand coast...

Episode 4: North Of The Wall
A complex of stone buildings near Hadrian's Wall that were built to keep Northern hoards at bay. Als...

Episode 5: The World's Strangest Disaster Zones
An extended special featuring a deserted Caribbean city, an American ghost town still burning and an...

Episode 6: Defenders Of Liberty
A now silent site that played a pivotal role defending the U.S through the 20th century. Plus, a cru...

Episode 7: Space Plane
A juggernaut of Soviet engineering which was crucial to the international space race. Deserted Scott...

Episode 8: Disaster On The 38th Parallel
The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a m...

Episode 9: Bunker Nation
A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility tha...

Episode 10: The Human Zoo
A creepy collection of buildings, monuments hidden in a Parisian park and an eerie graveyard of disc...

Episode 11: Spike Island
An impressive compound commandeered and repurposed by a brutal regime and an eerie complex off the c...

Episode 1: Hollywood Heroes
Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these d...

Episode 2: Stalin's Subway
In North Wales a secret facility which once manufactured mustard gas and enriched uranium lies in ru...

Episode 3: Disaster At The Maya Hotel
Ruins of a vast industrial ghost town in the United States, a windswept Scottish island and the rema...

Episode 4: Murder Underground
An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one...

Episode 5: El Dorado Canyon
An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Sc...

Episode 6: The Mafia Bunker
An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a pri...

Episode 7: Ruins of the Rust Belt
A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy...

Episode 8: American Ghost Park
A Middle Eastern region littered with ruins and a strange facility in Taiwan that struck fear into t...

Episode 9: Fortress of the Sky
Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania tha...

Episode 10: Catastrophe and Cover Up
A volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a miniature ra...

Episode 11: Dead Sea Disaster
A fairy-tale castle that staged one of the strangest stories of the Second World War and a haunting...

Episode 12: Global Icons
Bizarrely-shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, are now eerily quiet and neglected,...

Episode 1: Heroes & Villains
The home of an African dictator and a sporting hero, and the facility that held apartheid's greatest...

Episode 2: Paradise Lost
Exploring a ghost town in Colorado, the remnants of an industrial enterprise in Puerto Rico, and a r...

Episode 3: A Royal Deception
Exploring a jungle refuge concealing a story of royal deceit, nuclear bunkers infiltrated by outside...

Episode 4: Mafia Seaside Resort
Exploring a beachside resort with ties to the Russian mafia, a windswept base hiding lifesaving tech...

Episode 5: The Giant Speaker
Exploring a bizarre block in Taiwan resembling a giant speaker, a pioneering venture in Alaska, and...

Episode 6: Cathedral of Sewage
An ominous tower in the forests of Croatia, a New York City complex that broke the mould, and a gran...

Episode 7: The Secret Bunker
Exploring a desert island with an infected past adrift from the US mainland, the brutalist palace of...

Episode 8: The Battle of San Pietro
Featuring Italian ruins immortalised by Hollywood, a crumbling Chilean city with two lives and a bru...

Episode 9: Divine Intervention
Exploring a luxury resort that conceals a top-secret facility, a mysterious complex in Bali struck b...

Episode 10: Shadow of the Wars
Exploring a dystopian powerhouse in Pennsylvania, USA, a fairy-tale castle in Poland and AngloSaxon...

Episode 11: Death In Paradise
Exploring a bloody battleground on the Pacific Island of Peleliu and an ominous military stronghold...

Episode 12: Before The Crown
This episode travels to Chile, the Maltese capital Valleta, Havana and Germany, to reveal: honeymoon...

Episode 1: Megalomaniac's Palace
Exploring a once lavish palace in Iraq, the Sathorn Unique, an epic ghost tower in Thailand, and a f...

Episode 2: Jungle Fantasy Land
Exploring the remains of a pioneering industry town in Ohio, a once beautiful Croatian resort bombar...

Episode 3: The Beached Leviathan
The graffitied remains of a correctional facility in Atlanta, USA with a controversial and unexpecte...

Episode 4: Tunnel of Terrors
Exploring a military strong-hold in the Philippines, a facility that spawned an American sporting gr...

Episode 5: Apocolyptic Skyscraper
Exploring a ruined castle above a German village, a rural town in Idaho, a futuristic skyscraper in...

Episode 6: Ruins of Empire
Exploring a British fort that became a bizzare zoo, a brutalist school for Communist top brass and a...

Episode 7: Trouble In Paradise
Exploring a luxury resort in Argentina, a Greek palace above a Mexican city and a former hotel in Ha...

Episode 8: Experiments of War
Exploring a crumbling dam hidden in the Welsh valleys, a quaint outpost on a paradise island, and a...

Episode 9: Ancient Encounter
Exploring a picturesque French castle, the ruins of a Kansas City hospital, an ancient Turkish city,...

Episode 10: Alien Contact
Exploring a complex in Georgia pointing into deep space that almost discovered a signal from aliens.

Episode 11: Treasures To Die For
Exploring Hartwood, a haunting facility in Scotland, ruins of an ancient city in Iraq and a scandal...

Episode 12: Niagara's Hidden Marvel
Exploring a royal retreat caught in a web of corruption, an engineering marvel hidden behind the Nia...

Episode 1: Raiders & Invaders
Explore Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town drenched in infamy, the victim of a notorious raid, Alcatra...

Episode 2: The Rock
The Tunnels of Gibraltar were a Second World War espionage base, hidden in the Rock of Gibraltar, wh...

Episode 3: Enemy At The Gates
Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opp...

Episode 4: Cowboy Mountain
Exploring the remains of an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once kn...

Episode 5: Drone Wars
Exploring Agdam, a city in Azerbaijan raised to the ground in a conflict decided by a new weapon of...

Episode 6: Moonshot
Exploring an industrial ruin in the Florida Everglades that once competed in the greatest race human...

Episode 7: Rock And Ruin
Exploring traces of a mass deception hidden at Ponte Dirillo in Italy, as well as a once lavish thea...

Episode 8: Castle Of The Occult
Explores a dense forest near the Czech capital of Prague that hides Houska Castle, an eerie keep tha...

Episode 9: The Green Line
Exploring Serbia, Fort Pike in Louisiana, and a mountainside refuge in Georgia that was revealed to...

Episode 10: Blitz Spirit
Exploring a grand structure in Hull that was reduced to rubble by Hitler's planes, Casa Albero in It...

Episode 11: An American Exodus
Exploring a decrepit Liberian landmark with American origins, a desolate town in Belgium and a pione...

Episode 12: The Drop
Exploring the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans that dared to take on the authorities and paid the price a...

Episode 1: Rock 'N' Roll Island
Exploring Air Studios, on the Island of Montserrat, that became a mecca for rock legends. Also Tskal...

Episode 2: Penthouse Palace
Exploring Haludovo Palace Hotel in Croatia, Wolf's Lair, a German military complex and Herouni Mirro...

Episode 3: Castle Kingdom
Exploring a theme park in Buenos Aires built in a time of terror and dogged by controversy, and a ja...

Episode 4: Fake News Fortress
Exploring Dover Commando Fortress in South East England, where traces of a top-secret Commando raid...

Episode 5: The True Cross
Exploring Old Byron Hot Springs in the Californian desert - a once glittering Hollywood hotspot, con...

Episode 6: Wonderland
A symbol of national pride that became a symbol of excess in the Turkish capital of Ankara.

Episode 7: K-Pop Dreamland
Exploring Yongma Land - a South Korean dreamland given a second life from the most unlikely of place...

Episode 8: Blues Prison
Exploring Old Joliet Prison, a battered facility near Chicago that descended into open war, but then...

Episode 1: Murder in Martinique
Exploring Chateau Aubery on the island of Martinique, where a criminal kingpin wiped out the opposit...

Episode 2: Italian Turf War
Exploring Castel Volturno in Campana in Italy, Colorado and HMP Shepton Mallet in Somerset.

Episode 3: The Montauk Conspiracy
Exploring Camp Hero in Long Island, and a salt mine in Poland.

Episode 4: Propaganda Palace
Exploring the Apollo Movie Theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia, an ornate shrine to Soviet propaganda.

Episode 5: The Rediscovery of Archaeopolis
Exploring a country estate in Ireland where family divisions reflected a national struggle and was c...

Episode 6: Hell Island
Exploring Anchieta, a tropical island complex in Brazil and the scene of a dramatic uprising.

Episode 7: Myth & Legend
Exploring the ruined site of Troy, that helped decode one of the world's most enduring mysteries.

Episode 8: Korea's Joan of Arc
Exploring Seodaemun Prison, a facility in Seoul that helped spawn a legend known as South Korea's Jo...

Episode 1: Pirates of the North Sea
Exploring Opa-Locka City Hall, a strange structure that began as the dream of an American Renaissanc...

Episode 2: The Ghosts of Skeleton Coast
We explore Namibia's arid Skeleton Coast, where traces of a brutal but once vital industry lie scatt...

Episode 3: The Desert Pirates
We head to the Tunisian desert to explore a vast chain of ruins that once stood in the way of Allied...

Episode 4: Operation Just Cause
We explore Fort Amador, the site of an American invasion in Panama, and a grisly Polish facility tha...

Episode 5: The Real Schindler's List
We explore Schindler's Ark in the Czech Republic, a secret refuge in Europe's killing fields, and a...

Episode 6: Jailhouse Rebellion
We visit the decaying remains of Old Essex County Jail in New Jersey, a facility that became a powde...

Episode 7: Hunt for the Nazi Gold Train
We visit the Polish city of Walbrzych, where a fairytale castle on a cliff conceals a vast subterran...

Episode 8: Panama's Nazi Conspiracy
We explore Fort Sherman, a jungle stronghold in Panama built to defend a prized American possession...

Episode 1: Murder on the Reservation
Exploring an Oklahoman town so wealthy it inspired a Hollywood film.

Episode 2: Slam Dunkin' in the USSR
Exploring a derelict stadium in Lithuania that hosted an unlikely Cold War matchup and an industrial...

Episode 3: Nightmare in El Paso
Exploring a crumbling hospital complex in Germany that became the site of unspeakable atrocities and...

Episode 4: Border Wars
Exploring two ornate buildings in Texas that were once at the heart of the Mexican Revolution and a...

Episode 5: Napoleon's Mistress
Exploring a palatial ruin in Philadelphia built from the riches of an industrial golden age and a co...

Episode 6: Hell's Waiting Room
Exploring a concentration camp in the Czech Republic used for a publicity stunt to fool the world an...

Episode 7: Apocalypse Airbase
Exploring a nuclear-armed facility in Arkansas that served as America's last line of defence in the...

Episode 8: Mafia Wars
Exploring derelict villas in Sicily that reveal the island's complicated history with the Mafia and...
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