Abandoned Engineering(2017)

Name: Abandoned Engineering
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-02-18
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Tom Ward

Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.

★ 7.2(17)44m145 episodesReturning Series

Documentary

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.

First aired:: 2017-02-18
Country:: GB
Network:: U&Yesterday

Episodes

Series 1(6)Series 2(8)Series 3(8)Series 4(12)Series 5(8)Series 6(11)Series 7(12)Series 8(12)Series 9(12)Series 10(12)Season 11(8)Season 12(8)Season 13(8)Season 14(8)Season 15(12)

1. The Lost Pirate City
2020-07-09 · 44m
What happened to an infamous pirate city in Jamaica? Also, a grim gulag in Croatia and a Louisiana plantation caught up in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
2. Forbidden Island
★ 7.0
2020-07-16 · 44m
Examining a ghost island once belonging to a secretive country on the fringes of Europe. Also, a haunting site in the UK with evidence of strange burial practices.
3. Blast Zone
★ 8.0
2020-07-23 · 44m
Within a dense Polish woodland sits a forgotten complex with an explosive history. Also, grand coastal defences in Ghana reveal a tortured past.
4. North Of The Wall
★ 8.0
2020-07-30 · 44m
A complex of stone buildings near Hadrian's Wall that were built to keep Northern hoards at bay. Also, a top secret military facility in the American Midwest.
5. The World's Strangest Disaster Zones
★ 9.0
2020-08-06 · 89m
An extended special featuring a deserted Caribbean city, an American ghost town still burning and an Arctic settlement facing a terrifying future.
6. Defenders Of Liberty
★ 7.0
2020-11-03 · 44m
A now silent site that played a pivotal role defending the U.S through the 20th century. Plus, a crumbling Italian fortress and a ghostly Ukrainian mansion.
7. Space Plane
★ 7.0
2020-11-10 · 44m
A juggernaut of Soviet engineering which was crucial to the international space race. Deserted Scottish coastal defences and a complex that's crucial to American history.
8. Disaster On The 38th Parallel
★ 8.0
2020-11-17 · 44m
The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a mysterious structure on the 38th parallel.
9. Bunker Nation
★ 7.0
2020-11-24 · 44m
A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the forefront of weapons technology.
10. The Human Zoo
★ 7.0
2020-12-01 · 44m
A creepy collection of buildings, monuments hidden in a Parisian park and an eerie graveyard of discarded ships strewn along the banks of a mighty river.
11. Spike Island
★ 8.0
2020-12-08 · 44m
An impressive compound commandeered and repurposed by a brutal regime and an eerie complex off the coast of Ireland that became the biggest of its kind.