As the saying goes – they probably seemed like good ideas at the time. The world is peppered with examples of incredible engineering projects and buildings designed to make life easier for those that used them, amaze those that came to see them, and make money for those that ordered, designed and built them. They were the stuff of dreams. Often enormous engineering problems had to be resolved, obstacles overcome and new innovations employed just to get them built in the first place. Alas, a great number of these remarkable structures have now been abandoned, cast aside like enormous expensive out-of-date toys, never to be used in the ways for which they were intended. Each and every one of these extraordinary places is home to a wealth of powerful and compelling stories. We'll see and hear about some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has eve...
Exploring Air Studios, on the Island of Montserrat, that became a mecca for rock legends. Also Tskaltubo, in Georgia, built to host a fearsome dictator.
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s11e02Penthouse Palace2023-05-2220:00⌄
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2023-05-22 ·
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Exploring Haludovo Palace Hotel in Croatia, Wolf's Lair, a German military complex and Herouni Mirror Radio Telescope - a pioneering facility in Armenia.
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s11e03Castle Kingdom2023-05-2920:00⌄
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2023-05-29 ·
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Exploring a theme park in Buenos Aires built in a time of terror and dogged by controversy, and a jaw-dropping collection of castles in Turkey.
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s11e04Fake News Fortress2023-06-0520:00⌄
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2023-06-05 ·
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Exploring Dover Commando Fortress in South East England, where traces of a top-secret Commando raid are still visible.
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s11e05The True Cross2023-06-1220:00⌄
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2023-06-12 ·
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Exploring Old Byron Hot Springs in the Californian desert - a once glittering Hollywood hotspot, converted into a top-secret interrogation centre.
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s11e06Wonderland2023-06-1920:00⌄
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2023-06-19 ·
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Exploring a symbol of national pride that became a symbol of excess in the Turkish capital of Ankara.
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s11e07Pop Dreamland2023-06-2620:00⌄
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Pop Dreamland
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2023-06-26 ·
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Yongma Land is a South Korean dreamland given a second life from the most unlikely of places; Saguramo Space Research Centre is a state-of-the-art facility that thrust the Georgian nation into the world's greatest race; Donnottar Castle is an ancient Scottish fortress besieged by a warrior that would inspire a Hollywood epic; and Nis Concentration Camp is a Balkan house of horrors that symbolised the worst of humanity.
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s11e08Blues Prison2023-07-0320:00⌄
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2023-07-03 ·
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This episode features Old Joliet Prison, a battered facility near Chicago that hosted the Blues Brothers; Tito's Nuclear Bunker, Keelung Fortifications and Vilarinho de Furna Campo Do Geres.A dilapidated facility near Chicago that descended into open war but then hosted an iconic pop-culture moment; a vast underground base in Bosnia, saved by an act of sabotage, committed by a double agent; an ancient Portuguese settlement crushed under a wave of change, now emerging from the mud like a modern-day Atlantis; and a fortress city in Taiwan that a famed Chinese commander used to trap his French enemy and turn into their coffin.
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