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 - Hollywood Heroes
Release Date: 2021-01-13Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.
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Episode 2 - Stalin's Subway
Release Date: 2021-01-20In North Wales a secret facility which once manufactured mustard gas and enriched uranium lies in ruins. In Malta is a luxurious quarantine facility, that hides a dark secret.
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Episode 3 - Disaster At The Maya Hotel
Release Date: 2021-01-27Ruins of a vast industrial ghost town in the United States, a windswept Scottish island and the remains of a resort in Japan that watched a city burn.
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Episode 4 - Murder Underground
Release Date: 2021-02-03An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous messages in American history.
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Episode 5 - El Dorado Canyon
Release Date: 2021-02-10An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.
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Episode 6 - The Mafia Bunker
Release Date: 2021-02-17An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a mafia kingpin.
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Episode 7 - Ruins of the Rust Belt
Release Date: 2021-02-24A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner of the world.
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Episode 8 - American Ghost Park
Release Date: 2021-03-03A Middle Eastern region littered with ruins and a strange facility in Taiwan that struck fear into the hearts of those who knew its true purpose.
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Episode 9 - Fortress of the Sky
Release Date: 2021-03-10Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.
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Episode 10 - Catastrophe and Cover Up
Release Date: 2021-03-17A volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a miniature railway that lies forgotten in the woods of Arkansas.
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Episode 11 - Dead Sea Disaster
Release Date: 2021-03-24A fairy-tale castle that staged one of the strangest stories of the Second World War and a haunting complex on an old American Frontier.
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Episode 12 - Global Icons
Release Date: 2021-03-31Bizarrely-shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, are now eerily quiet and neglected, and a shattered compound in Colombia linked to a criminal mastermind.