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.

The World's Strangest Ghost Town: Episode Image
Episode 1The World's Strangest Ghost Town

A settlement in Argentina destroyed by floods, a town in the US that has been erased, and a Soviet dream-town that turned into a nuclear nightmare.

Palace of Death: Episode Image
Episode 2Palace of Death

A seemingly endless concrete line stretching through the French countryside, which sits as a monument to a discarded engineering advancement.

Guernsey Nazi Towers: Episode Image
Episode 3Guernsey Nazi Towers

A little-known dark past explains the vast monolithic structures that dominate the small British island of Guernsey.

Bodie USA: Episode Image
Episode 4Bodie USA

Projects include a maze of tunnels filled with haunting remains beneath the streets of Paris and a formation of domed structures hovering over the waters off the Florida coastline.

Tunnel to the Underworld: Episode Image
Episode 5Tunnel to the Underworld

A West Virginia town that fell victim to change when steam trains became obsolete and an underground complex in Italy that'd been abandoned for nearly 2,000 years.

Escobar's Ruin: Episode Image
Episode 6Escobar's Ruin

A ruined compound on the edge of a peninsula in Colombia which was once home to a famous outlaw and the strange towers looming over red-tinted waters in a Portuguese landscape.

Villa De Vecchi Rhodes: Episode Image
Episode 7Villa De Vecchi Rhodes

A formerly luxurious and strategic mountain-top villa on the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean that's been ravaged by acts of revenge by locals since 1955.

Pyramiden Norway: Episode Image
Episode 8Pyramiden Norway

A town with a supernatural atmosphere, a collection of imposing buildings in southern Australia, and the remains of curious-looking basins emerging from the waves.

Behind the Berlin Wall Special: Episode Image
Episode 9Behind the Berlin Wall Special

Ruins include a covert Communist base that hid Cold War submarines for Tito and the former HQ of the Soviet Army in East Germany.

Bannack USA: Episode Image
Episode 10Bannack USA

A sprawling Wild West ghost town sits peaceful and abandoned in Montana, USA, but is still haunted by tales of murder, corruption an buried treasure.

Buckner Building Alaska: Episode Image
Episode 11Buckner Building Alaska

A vast project in the wilderness of southern Alaska, and a landscape of confusing structures that represented a bold statement of Spain's plans for the future.

1936 Olympic Village Berlin: Episode Image
Episode 121936 Olympic Village Berlin

A pioneering complex marked by both glory and tragedy that's soon to be lost forever, and towering remains from an industrial age.

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