Tom Ward
Self - Narrator
Abandoned Engineering (2017)
Series 4
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
S4E1 - The 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.
June 27, 2019, midnight
S4E2 - Palace of Death
A seemingly endless concrete line stretching through the French countryside, which sits as a monument to a discarded engineering advancement.
July 4, 2019, midnight
S4E3 - Guernsey Nazi Towers
A little-known dark past explains the vast monolithic structures that dominate the small British island of Guernsey.
July 11, 2019, midnight
S4E4 - Bodie USA
Projects include a maze of tunnels filled with haunting remains beneath the streets of Paris and a strange formation of domed structures hovering over the waters off Florida.
July 18, 2019, midnight
S4E5 - Tunnel To The Underworld
A town in West Virginia that fell victim to the pace of change when steam trains became obsolete and an underground complex in Italy that had been abandoned for nearly 2,000 years.
July 25, 2019, midnight
S4E6 - Escobar's Ruin
Features a ruined compound in Colombia which was once home to Pablo Escobar and alien-looking structures with no apparent purpose, isolated in an empty English marshland in Denge, near Dungeness in Kent. But how and why were they ever built at all, and why are they now left abandoned?
Aug. 1, 2019, midnight
S4E7 - Villa 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.
Aug. 8, 2019, midnight
S4E8 - Pyramiden Norway
A strange-looking deserted town with an almost supernatural atmosphere on a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean was in fact an ambitious Soviet mining outpost with a tragic history. Also, a collection of imposing buildings on the southern tip of Australia, the remains of curious-looking basins emerging from the waves in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge and the ruins of a monumental construction project in southern Germany that was a ruthless regime's deadly prototype.
Oct. 31, 2019, midnight
S4E9 - Behind The Berlin Wall
Still standing today, a fierce-looking prison and an innocuous looking office building in Berlin were actually the headquarters of a feared and ruthless organisation - the Stasi. Also, a covert Communist base hid Cold War submarines for Tito, the former leader of Yugoslavia on the island of Vis. A seemingly innocuous sports centre hides a sinister underground bunker. And the former HQ of the Soviet Army in East Germany was a forbidden Soviet city within a city.
Nov. 7, 2019, midnight
S4E10 - Bannack USA
A sprawling Wild West ghost town sits peaceful and abandoned in Montana, USA, but is still haunted by tales of murder, corruption and buried treasure. Also, a cold, dark, underground mountain network that cost the lives of thousands... the crumbling ruins of an English industry that turned poison into profit... a peaceful village that was shattered by the terrors of war.
Nov. 14, 2019, midnight
S4E11 - Buckner Building Alaska
A vast snowcovered monster in the icy wilderness of southern Alaska, a ruined super structure that overshadows everything around it in and a landscape of confusing and surprising structures that once represented a bold statement of Spain's plans for the future. Plus, a long, winding formation that was once supposed to help defend Hitler's Third Reich. And in Budapest, Hungary, the stripped skeleton of an industrial relic lies rusting away.
Nov. 21, 2019, midnight
S4E12 - 1936 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.
Nov. 28, 2019, 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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