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The Best Episodes of Abandoned Engineering

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Abandoned Engineering Season 2 Episode 6 - America's Jungle City
    8.2/10(19 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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Abandoned Engineering Season 6 Episode 1 - The Lost Pirate City
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    #2 - The Lost Pirate City

    S6:E1

    What happened to an infamous pirate city in Jamaica? Also, a grim gulag in Croatia and a Louisiana plantation caught up in the aftermath of the American Civil War.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Abandoned Engineering Season 7 Episode 2 - Stalin's Subway
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Abandoned Engineering Season 2 Episode 1 - Hitler's Army Powerhouse
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Abandoned Engineering Season 5 Episode 3 - Escape from Devil's Island
    7.9/10(10 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Abandoned Engineering Season 8 Episode 1 - Heroes & Villains
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Abandoned Engineering Season 2 Episode 5 - The Abandoned Nazi Railway
    7.8/10(24 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Abandoned Engineering Season 2 Episode 7 - Germany's Lost Warship
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Abandoned Engineering Season 6 Episode 7 - Space Plane
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #9 - Space Plane

    S6:E7

    A juggernaut of Soviet engineering which was crucial to the international space race. Deserted Scottish coastal defences and a complex that's crucial to American history.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Abandoned Engineering Season 7 Episode 12 - Global Icons
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Abandoned Engineering Season 4 Episode 11 - Buckner Building Alaska
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Abandoned Engineering Season 5 Episode 8 - Behind Enemy Lines
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Abandoned Engineering Season 6 Episode 5 - The World's Strangest Disaster Zones
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    #13 - The World's Strangest Disaster Zones

    S6:E5

    An extended special featuring a deserted Caribbean city, an American ghost town still burning and an Arctic settlement facing a terrifying future.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Abandoned Engineering Season 8 Episode 2 - Paradise Lost
    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Abandoned Engineering Season 8 Episode 11 - Death In Paradise
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #15 - Death In Paradise

    S8:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Abandoned Engineering Season 1 Episode 6 - Roads to Nowhere
    7.6/10(28 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Abandoned Engineering Season 2 Episode 2 - Britain's Sea Fort Complex
    7.6/10(28 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Abandoned Engineering Season 4 Episode 10 - Bannack USA
    7.6/10(13 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Abandoned Engineering Season 5 Episode 5 - A Nation Torn Apart
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Abandoned Engineering Season 6 Episode 8 - Disaster On The 38th Parallel
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #20 - Disaster On The 38th Parallel

    S6:E8

    The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a mysterious structure on the 38th parallel.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Abandoned Engineering Season 7 Episode 10 - Catastrophe and Cover Up
    7.6/10(10 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Abandoned Engineering Season 8 Episode 12 - Before The Crown
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Abandoned Engineering Season 10 Episode 4 - Cowboy Mountain
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #23 - Cowboy Mountain

    S10:E4

    Exploring the remains of an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once know as the Venice of the air

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Abandoned Engineering Season 2 Episode 3 - The Italian Dam Disaster
    7.5/10(24 votes)

    #24 - 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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Abandoned Engineering Season 3 Episode 4 - Sabotage in the Mountains
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #25 - Sabotage in the Mountains

    S3:E4

    A towering structure with an explosive past, a deserted cityscape, a mysterious top-secret facility and a vast Nazi construction.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"America's Jungle City" is the best rated episode of "Abandoned Engineering". It scored 8.2/10 based on 19 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, "The Lost Pirate City".