Abandoned Engineering

Series 7

TV-PG

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.

Where to Watch Series 7

12 Episodes

Hollywood Heroes
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Hollywood HeroesLegendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.
Stalin's Subway
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Stalin's SubwayIn 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.
Disaster At The Maya Hotel
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Disaster At The Maya HotelRuins 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.
Murder Underground
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Murder UndergroundAn engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous messages in American history.
El Dorado Canyon
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El Dorado CanyonAn American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.
The Mafia Bunker
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The Mafia BunkerAn iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a mafia kingpin.
Ruins of the Rust Belt
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Ruins of the Rust BeltA real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner of the world.
American Ghost Park
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American Ghost ParkA 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.
Fortress of the Sky
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Fortress of the SkyEerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.
Catastrophe and Cover Up
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Catastrophe and Cover UpA volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a miniature railway that lies forgotten in the woods of Arkansas.
Dead Sea Disaster
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Dead Sea DisasterA fairy-tale castle that staged one of the strangest stories of the Second World War and a haunting complex on an old American Frontier.
Global Icons
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Global IconsBizarrely-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.