Tom Ward
Self - Narrator
Abandoned Engineering (2017)
Series 7
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
S7E1 - Hollywood Heroes
Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.
Jan. 13, 2021, midnight
S7E2 - Stalin's Subway
In North Wales a secret facility which once manufactured mustard gas and enriched uranium lies in ruins. In Malta is a luxurious quarantine facility, that hides a dark secret.
Jan. 20, 2021, midnight
S7E3 - Disaster At The Maya Hotel
Ruins of a vast industrial ghost town in the United States, a windswept Scottish island and the remains of a resort in Japan that watched a city burn.
Jan. 27, 2021, midnight
S7E4 - Murder Underground
An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous messages in American history.
Feb. 3, 2021, midnight
S7E5 - El Dorado Canyon
An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.
Feb. 10, 2021, midnight
S7E6 - The Mafia Bunker
An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a mafia kingpin.
Feb. 17, 2021, midnight
S7E7 - Ruins of the Rust Belt
A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner of the world.
Feb. 24, 2021, midnight
S7E8 - American Ghost Park
A Middle Eastern region littered with ruins and a strange facility in Taiwan that struck fear into the hearts of those who knew its true purpose.
March 3, 2021, midnight
S7E9 - Fortress of the Sky
Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.
March 10, 2021, midnight
S7E10 - Catastrophe and Cover Up
A volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a miniature railway that lies forgotten in the woods of Arkansas.
March 17, 2021, midnight
S7E11 - Dead Sea Disaster
A fairy-tale castle that staged one of the strangest stories of the Second World War and a haunting complex on an old American Frontier.
March 24, 2021, midnight
S7E12 - Global Icons
Bizarrely-shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, are now eerily quiet and neglected, and a shattered compound in Colombia linked to a criminal mastermind.
March 31, 2021, 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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