Abandoned Engineering (2017)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Lost Pirate City
Release Date: 2020-07-09What happened to an infamous pirate city in Jamaica? Also, a grim gulag in Croatia and a Louisiana plantation caught up in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
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Episode 2 - Forbidden Island
Release Date: 2020-07-16Examining a ghost island once belonging to a secretive country on the fringes of Europe. Also, a haunting site in the UK with evidence of strange burial practices.
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Episode 3 - Blast Zone
Release Date: 2020-07-23Within a dense Polish woodland sits a forgotten complex with an explosive history. Also, grand coastal defences in Ghana reveal a tortured past.
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Episode 4 - North Of The Wall
Release Date: 2020-07-30A complex of stone buildings near Hadrian's Wall that were built to keep Northern hoards at bay. Also, a top secret military facility in the American Midwest.
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Episode 5 - The World's Strangest Disaster Zones
Release Date: 2020-08-06An extended special featuring a deserted Caribbean city, an American ghost town still burning and an Arctic settlement facing a terrifying future.
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Episode 6 - Defenders Of Liberty
Release Date: 2020-11-03A now silent site that played a pivotal role defending the U.S through the 20th century. Plus, a crumbling Italian fortress and a ghostly Ukrainian mansion.
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Episode 7 - Space Plane
Release Date: 2020-11-10A juggernaut of Soviet engineering which was crucial to the international space race. Deserted Scottish coastal defences and a complex that's crucial to American history.
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Episode 8 - Disaster On The 38th Parallel
Release Date: 2020-11-17The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a mysterious structure on the 38th parallel.
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Episode 9 - Bunker Nation
Release Date: 2020-11-24A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the forefront of weapons technology.
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Episode 10 - The Human Zoo
Release Date: 2020-12-01A creepy collection of buildings, monuments hidden in a Parisian park and an eerie graveyard of discarded ships strewn along the banks of a mighty river.
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Episode 11 - Spike Island
Release Date: 2020-12-08An impressive compound commandeered and repurposed by a brutal regime and an eerie complex off the coast of Ireland that became the biggest of its kind.