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The Best Episodes of Abandoned Engineering

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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
    8.1/10(17 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 The Abandoned Nazi Railway
    7.9/10(20 votes)

    #2 - 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
  3. Background image for Hitler's Army Powerhouse
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #3 - 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
  4. Background image for Germany's Lost Warship
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    #4 - 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
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Escape from Devil's Island
    7.8/10(9 votes)

    #5 - Escape from Devil's Island

    S5:E3

    Claustrophobic prison cells that contain a story worthy of international acclaim, and a vast mountainside complex that held the power to change the world.

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

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for A Nation Torn Apart
    7.7/10(8 votes)

    #7 - A Nation Torn Apart

    S5:E5

    Including an exploration of a marooned iron-clad structure in Portland, off the coast of England, that hides a dramatic story of war and resilience; Pratt Cotton Gin Mill, a vast facility in the heart of America's deep south that helped tear apart a nation; and a Mediterranean island fortress at Spinalonga, Greece, that became the scene of a dark conspiracy.

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

    #8 - 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
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  10. Background image for Ghosts of the Swamp
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #9 - Ghosts of the Swamp

    S5:E6

    Including an exploration of forgotten relics from the defence of America's homeland, at Fort Jackson, USA, concealed by the banks of the Mississippi River; a concrete behemoth at Lorient Sub Base, on the coast of France, that proved invulnerable to enemy bombardment; and a ghostly ruin at Gwrych that is now home to a haunting presence.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Behind Enemy Lines
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #10 - Behind Enemy Lines

    S5:E8

    An Albanian village home to Allied secret agents, devastated for resisting the Nazi war machine, and a notorious asylum in America that enforced lobotomies on a terrifying scale.

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

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for Before The Crown
    7.6/10(10 votes)

    #12 - 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
  14. Background image for Roads to Nowhere
    7.5/10(27 votes)

    #13 - Roads to Nowhere

    S1:E6

    Hear how a crumbling hill in the Peak District and dunes in California caused the closure of two roads. Learn why a route used by the French Resistance shut in 2003.

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

    #14 - 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
  16. Background image for Heroes & Villains
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #15 - 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
  17. Background image for Shadow of the Wars
    7.5/10(8 votes)

    #16 - 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
  18. Background image for Lost Highway in the Rainforest
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #17 - 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
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Disaster in the Desert
    7.4/10(13 votes)

    #18 - Disaster in the Desert

    S5:E1

    The desert town that faced a disaster of biblical proportions. Plus, vast coastal ruins that reveal a past once wiped from history.

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    Director:Unknown
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  20. Background image for The Valkyrie Assassin
    7.4/10(13 votes)

    #19 - The Valkyrie Assassin

    S5:E2

    The underground base with the power to destroy a nation, the site linked with an attempt to kill a dictator, and an ancient world discovered in the American wilderness.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Silent Cities
    7.3/10(34 votes)

    #20 - Silent Cities

    S1:E1

    Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions unanswered and mysteries unsolved. We explore the worlds strangest engineering projects that created empty silent cities. We ask why a ruined cold war air base has become a no-go area and how a tiny Japanese mining island become the most over-crowded place on the planet. We find out if the street layout of the Soviet Union's model city become a matter of life or death for its population. And how did Nazi Germany create a huge mind control facility at a holiday resort?

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    Director:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Lost Bridges
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #21 - Lost Bridges

    S1:E3

    Soaring across some of the widest rivers and deepest valleys on the planet, bridges have always been at the cutting edge of engineering. We travel high into the mountains of the Colorado desert to find out why a hidden engineering masterpiece could disappear at any time. We ask why a stretch of overgrown concrete in a Czech reservoir is known as 'Hitler's bridge'. We find out how the highest bridge in the world collapsed in less than one minute. Finally, we uncover the story behind Cape Town's invisible bridge, which never carried a single vehicle.

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    Director:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Battle of Britain Technology Facility
    7.3/10(20 votes)

    #22 - Battle of Britain Technology Facility

    S2:E4

    Learn about the strange-looking, derelict military facilities in Farnborough, which were once wind tunnels that played a vital role in WWII.

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    Director:Unknown
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  24. Background image for A Royal Deception
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #23 - A Royal Deception

    S8:E3

    Exploring a jungle refuge concealing a story of royal deceit, nuclear bunkers infiltrated by outsiders, and a haunted hospital marked by scandal.

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    Director:Unknown
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  25. Background image for The Secret Bunker
    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #24 - The Secret Bunker

    S8:E7

    Exploring a desert island with an infected past adrift from the US mainland, the brutalist palace of a mad Bulgarian dictator, and a doomed top-secret Nazi project.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Divine Intervention
    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #25 - Divine Intervention

    S8:E9

    Exploring a luxury resort that conceals a top-secret facility, a mysterious complex in Bali struck by disaster, and a relic of hope near Jerusalem.

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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 8.1/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/12/2018. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Abandoned Nazi Railway".