Tom Ward
Self - Narrator
Abandoned Engineering (2017)
Series 10
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.
Released Feb. 18, 2017
Episode 44 min
10+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.engineering, tmdb.architecture-history, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.show
Production Companies: Like A Shot Entertainment
Network: U&Yesterday
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S10E1 - Raiders & Invaders
Explore Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town drenched in infamy, the victim of a notorious raid, Alcatraz, a facility famed for breakouts, subjected to a daring break-in, and Sealand, a micronation off the English coast, stormed by a band of mercenaries.
Sept. 5, 2022, midnight
S10E2 - The Rock
The Tunnels of Gibraltar were a Second World War espionage base, hidden in the Rock of Gibraltar, which lay undiscovered for decades. At Atlas-1 Test Site, are the remains of an ingenious US Airforce project that continues to keep people safe.
Sept. 12, 2022, midnight
S10E3 - Enemy At The Gates
Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opportunity, crime and destitution.
Sept. 19, 2022, midnight
S10E4 - Cowboy Mountain
Exploring the remains of an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once know as the Venice of the air
Sept. 26, 2022, midnight
S10E5 - Drone Wars
Exploring Agdam, a city in Azerbaijan raised to the ground in a conflict decided by a new weapon of war.
Oct. 3, 2022, midnight
S10E6 - Moonshot
Exploring an industrial ruin in the Florida Everglades that once competed in the greatest race humankind has ever witnessed.
Oct. 10, 2022, midnight
S10E7 - Rock 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.
Oct. 17, 2022, midnight
S10E8 - Castle Of The Occult
Explores a dense forest near the Czech capital of Prague that hides Houska Castle, an eerie keep that has been subject to long-standing rumours that it possesses supernatural powers.
Oct. 24, 2022, midnight
S10E9 - The 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.
Oct. 31, 2022, midnight
S10E10 - Blitz 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.
Nov. 7, 2022, midnight
S10E11 - An American Exodus
Exploring a decrepit Liberian landmark with American origins, a desolate town in Belgium and a pioneering scientific structure in Cleveland.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S10E12 - The Drop
Exploring the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans that dared to take on the authorities and paid the price and Belgica Fort, built to defend an unlikely treasure.
Nov. 21, 2022, midnight
Network: U&Yesterday
Episode Runtime: 44 min.
Season Runtime: 5884 min.
Released: Feb. 18, 2017
Last Air Date: Nov. 26, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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