Abandoned Engineering

201713 series
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`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.

Raiders and Invaders: Episode Image
Episode 1Raiders and Invaders

Exploring Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town drenched in infamy. Also, Alcatraz, a facility famed for breakouts but also subjected to a daring break-in.

The Rock: Episode Image
Episode 2The Rock

Exploring the Tunnels of Gibraltar, a Second World War espionage base, hidden in the Rock of Gibraltar.

Enemy at the Gates: Episode Image
Episode 3Enemy at the Gates

Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opportunity, crime and destitution.

Cowboy Mountain: Episode Image
Episode 4Cowboy Mountain

Exploring the remains of an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once know as the Venice of the air.

Drone Wars: Episode Image
Episode 5Drone Wars

Exploring Agdam, a city in Azerbaijan raised to the ground in a conflict decided by a new weapon of war.

Moonshot: Episode Image
Episode 6Moonshot

Exploring an industrial ruin in the Florida Everglades that once competed in the greatest race humankind has ever witnessed.

Rock and Ruin: Episode Image
Episode 7Rock and Ruin

Exploring traces of a mass deception hidden at Ponte Dirillo in Italy, as well as a once lavish theatre in Ohio and an ancient city with a poisonous secret.

Castle of the Occult: Episode Image
Episode 8Castle of the Occult

Exploring a dense forest near the Czech capital of Prague that hides Houska Castle, an eerie castle rumoured to possess supernatural powers.

The Green Line: Episode Image
Episode 9The Green Line

Exploring Serbia, Fort Pike in Louisiana, and a mountainside refuge in Georgia that was revealed to the world by an act of God.

Blitz Spirit: Episode Image
Episode 10Blitz Spirit

Exploring a grand structure in Hull that was reduced to rubble by Hitler's planes, Casa Albero in Italy, USS Hornet in California and the Sofia tunnels.

An American Exodus: Episode Image
Episode 11An American Exodus

Exploring a decrepit Liberian landmark with American origins, a desolate town in Belgium and a pioneering scientific structure in Cleveland.

The Drop: Episode Image
Episode 12The Drop

Exploring the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans, a music mecca that dared to take on the authorities and paid the price, and Belgica Fort, built to defend an unlikely treasure.

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