Abandoned Engineering

2017•15 series

Available on U&Yesterday

`Abandoned Engineering' explores some of the world's biggest and most mysterious abandoned constructions, structures that, at the time, were among the most advanced engineering projects ever undertaken. Beyond the structures themselves, the team explores the histories and mysteries behind them, including what happened at infamous locations such as a former pirate city in Jamaica, a Croatian gulag and a Louisiana plantation. Other sites, such as an ancient burial sites in the United Kingdom, reveal past practices that seem haunting.

Episode 2The Siege of Sarajevo

Learn more about the story behind a marooned weapons research facility in the freezing Polish waters, and a network of concrete channels hidden in a mountaintop forest.

Episode 5The Desert Ghost Fleet

Mysterious rusting ships stranded in a desert - once cutting-edge, now contaminated and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?

Episode 6The Underwater Prison

An abandoned prison beneath the water, and concrete towers hidden in the woods. Once cutting-edge, now disused and contaminated. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?

Episode 8Sabotage in the Mountains

The episode explores the towering remains of a mountainside structure with an explosive past, and a former top-secret Soviet facility still shrouded in mystery off the coast of Estonia. (S3 Ep4)

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