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s15e12 · 2026-02-11 · 20:00
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Abandoned Engineering
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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 Alas, a great number of these remarkable structures have now been abandoned, cast aside like enormous expensive out-of-date toys, never to be used in the ways for which they were intended.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...
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8 this season · 145 totals03e01 The Desert Ghost Fleet 2019-03-26 20:00
The Desert Ghost Fleet
A mysterious group of rusting ships stranded in an arid desert; a monstrous defensive line on the snow-covered peaks of the Italian Alps; a ghostly collection of ornate buildings deep in the German woodland; the sunken remains of a unique maritime vessel with a story to tell... Once these extraordinary places and objects were at the cutting edge of design and construction, but now they stand disused, sometimes contaminated and sometimes dangerous. But who was it that built these mysterious structures? What secrets do they hold, and why were they abandoned?
s03e02 The Underwater Prison 2019-04-02 19:00
The Underwater Prison
An abandoned Soviet prison and forced labour camp submerged beneath the water, the eerie remains of a tunnel leading deep into the heart of Blue Ridge Mountains, strange concrete towers hidden away in Finland's snow-covered countryside, and a colossal rusting relic standing proud on the coast of southern Spain.
s03e03 Nightmare on Blood Mountain 2019-04-09 19:00
Nightmare on Blood Mountain
In this episode, concrete channels hidden in a mountaintop forest, a collapsing bridge, a marooned military base and the upright rusting carcass of ship - but why have they all been abandoned?
s03e04 Sabotage in the Mountains 2019-04-16 19:00
Sabotage in the Mountains
The towering remains of a mountainside structure with an explosive past…a deserted and disintegrating cityscape in the heart of Detroit…a former top-secret Soviet facility still shrouded in mystery off the coast of Estonia…a strange hulking mass of concrete lost in the Polish countryside.
s03e05 Germany's D-Day Fortress 2019-04-23 19:00
Germany's D-Day Fortress
A devastated cliff-top ruin in a pock-marked landscape that helped turn the tide of war, an extraordinary tall ‘tower of death' in the middle of a busy city, an eerie concrete structure stranded at sea that came to a gruesome end, and a mysterious heavy metal monster abandoned in a remote field.
s03e06 Hitler's Wonder Weapons Bunker 2019-04-30 19:00
Hitler's Wonder Weapons Bunker
Hidden tunnels that saw a city prosper, a sunken wreck with a remarkable past, a concrete wartime dome and a mysterious cold war building all feature.
s03e07 A Ghost Town in Spain 2019-05-07 19:00
A Ghost Town in Spain
A village ruin, a ghostly fleet of ships, a bridge to nowhere hidden in a forest and strange metal structures in a wood all feature.
s03e08 England's Abandoned Village 2019-05-14 19:00
England's Abandoned Village
An eerie, empty country village which hides a sad secret, a mysterious tower battered by the elements and scarred by war, a desolate and forgotten ravaged town decaying in the desert, and a disused railway deep beneath the streets of a city. But why were they abandoned?