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The Best Episodes of Abandoned Engineering

Every episode of Abandoned Engineering ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Abandoned Engineering!

The Best Episodes of Abandoned Engineering

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,...
  1. Background image for America's Jungle City
    8.2/10(18 votes)

    #1 - America's Jungle City

    S2:E6

    This week, find out why Fordlandia Rubber Town, a symbol of the American dream first established by Henry Ford in the 1920s, is now left rotting in the Amazonian rainforest. Also, what secrets do the enormous monoliths scattered across a secret forest complex in Eastern Poland hold? And what secrets does a fortified corridor of death with a Cold war past stretching for miles across Hötensleben, Germany hold? And a bizarre structure in South Western France built to speed trade was once at the forefront of design, now lies disused and abandoned, but why?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Stalin's Subway
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #2 - Stalin's Subway

    S7:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Abandoned Nazi Railway
    7.9/10(20 votes)

    #3 - The Abandoned Nazi Railway

    S2:E5

    The Canfranc Railway Station is an elaborate abandoned Nazi railway station built near a town of only 500 people in the Pyrenees in Spain. But why was it built there and what secrets does it hold? Also examined in this episode is the Salton Sea Navy Base in California - a military post in the middle of the desert in the American west, the Kola Superdeep borehole - a wrecked record-holding Arctic facility in Russia that goes deep, deep underground, and a huge tower looming over an industrial area in Belgium. All of these extraordinary places and objects were at the cutting edge of design and construction, but now they stand disused, sometimes contaminated and sometimes dangerous.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Global Icons
    7.9/10(9 votes)

    #4 - Global Icons

    S7:E12

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Hitler's Army Powerhouse
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #5 - Hitler's Army Powerhouse

    S2:E1

    A dark past explains why the Pölitz Synthetic Fuel Plant in Northern Poland is now a derelict industrial site littered with tunnels, bunkers and huge crumbling concrete structures lost in dense forest. The site was built in 1937 as part of Nazi Germany's drive to become self-sufficient on fuel, but it was no ordinary refinery. It used the latest technology at the time, at great expense, to turn coal into oil. In 1945 an Allied air raid pulverised the plant, severely wounding the German war machine and leaving the site in ruins. Other structures examined in the first episode include the incredible vertical Phoenix Shot Tower in Baltimore, which was built to provide America's own ammunition, the former American spy instillation called Teufelsberg (or "Devil's Mountain") in Berlin which waged the Cold War against the Soviet Union, and the now derelict Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse which was built on Europe's second-fastest moving sand dune in Denmark.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Germany's Lost Warship
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    #6 - Germany's Lost Warship

    S2:E7

    The Georg Thiele was a technological masterpiece, but it is a shipwreck, lost to the sea in a Norwegian Fjord after running aground during a naval battle in WWII. Also in this episode, a mysterious concrete giant which echoes the Communist era atop a mountain peak in Bulgaria, a fantastical structure built in the middle of an American river, and one of the world's first and finest Artic feats of engineering, The Miles Glacier Bridge in Alaska, which, when it was first built in the early 1900s, was known as the Million Dollar Bridge.

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Buckner Building Alaska
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Buckner Building Alaska

    S4:E11

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Paradise Lost
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #8 - Paradise Lost

    S8:E2

    Exploring a ghost town in Colorado, the remnants of an industrial enterprise in Puerto Rico, and a remote village on Cyprus.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Bannack USA
    7.7/10(12 votes)

    #9 - Bannack USA

    S4:E10

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  11. Background image for Britain's Sea Fort Complex
    7.6/10(25 votes)

    #10 - Britain's Sea Fort Complex

    S2:E2

    A strange group of rusting structures off the coast of England, a dilapidated mediaeval-style castle in the heart of urban America and one of the biggest machines ever built lying forgotten in a German field. 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 incredible stories surround them? What secrets do they hold? And why were they abandoned? Seven huge steel boxes rise 80-feet out of the water off the coast of England at the mouth of the River Thames. Now rusting and derelict, The Red Sands Sea Fort was originally built as a first line of defence to deter the Nazi threat to London. Successfully helping the Allies to victory in 1945, the project is one of the most extraordinary engineering successes of World War II. Also in this episode, a sinister-looking deserted Cold War concrete pyramid in North Dakota; a vast empty complex located in the heart of a Philadelphia; and a 4,000-tonne corroding mass of steel, left to rot in a field in Eastern Germany.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Pyramiden Norway
    7.6/10(21 votes)

    #11 - Pyramiden Norway

    S4:E8

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Disaster At The Maya Hotel
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Disaster At The Maya Hotel

    S7:E3

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Dead Sea Disaster
    7.6/10(10 votes)

    #13 - Dead Sea Disaster

    S7:E11

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Death In Paradise
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Death In Paradise

    S8:E11

    Exploring a bloody battleground on the Pacific Island of Peleliu and an ominous military stronghold in Russia.

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    Director:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Before The Crown
    7.6/10(10 votes)

    #15 - Before The Crown

    S8:E12

    This episode travels to Chile, the Maltese capital Valleta, Havana and Germany, to reveal: honeymoon home of a young princess that offered her a glimpse of freedom; grand monuments designed by the most notorious dictator of the twentieth century; a sprawling industrial complex?the site of a ruthless disappearance; and?the artistic dream of?a revolutionary now in?ruins.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Italian Dam Disaster
    7.5/10(22 votes)

    #16 - The Italian Dam Disaster

    S2:E3

    An abandoned concrete wall... five strange deserted structures. A lost escape route from nuclear Armageddon... A submerged link to D-day... Once they were at the cutting edge of design and construction, now they lie disused, contaminated and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Hollywood Heroes
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #17 - Hollywood Heroes

    S7:E1

    Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Murder Underground
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #18 - Murder Underground

    S7:E4

    An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous messages in American history.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Catastrophe and Cover Up
    7.5/10(9 votes)

    #19 - Catastrophe and Cover Up

    S7:E10

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Heroes & Villains
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #20 - Heroes & Villains

    S8:E1

    The home of an African dictator and a sporting hero, and the facility that held apartheid's greatest critic are abandoned, but still have unique stories to tell.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Shadow of the Wars
    7.5/10(8 votes)

    #21 - Shadow of the Wars

    S8:E10

    Exploring a dystopian powerhouse in Pennsylvania, USA, a fairy-tale castle in Poland and AngloSaxon religious ruins across vast plains of Scotland.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Lost Highway in the Rainforest
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #22 - Lost Highway in the Rainforest

    S2:E8

    A lost highway in the Brazilian jungle, a forgotten bunker system in the French Alps and a man-made island in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. Who built them, and why?

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    Director:Unknown
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  24. Background image for The Desert Ghost Fleet
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    #23 - The Desert Ghost Fleet

    S3:E1

    The programme looks at 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 buildings, and the sunken remains of a unique vessel.

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    Director:Unknown
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  25. Background image for Hitler's Wonder Weapons Bunker
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    #24 - Hitler's Wonder Weapons Bunker

    S3:E6

    Hidden tunnels that saw a city prosper, a sunken wreck with a remarkable past, a concrete wartime dome and a mysterious Cold War building.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for A Ghost Town In Spain
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    #25 - A Ghost Town In Spain

    S3:E7

    A village ruin, pitted and scarred, a ghostly fleet of ships, a bridge to nowhere hidden in a forest and strange metal structures in a wood.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"America's Jungle City" is the best rated episode of "Abandoned Engineering". It scored 8.2/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/12/2018. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Stalin's Subway".