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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 Stalin's Subway
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #1 - 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
  2. Background image for Global Icons
    7.9/10(9 votes)

    #2 - 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
  3. Background image for Disaster At The Maya Hotel
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #3 - 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
  4. Background image for Dead Sea Disaster
    7.6/10(10 votes)

    #4 - 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
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Hollywood Heroes
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for Murder Underground
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for Catastrophe and Cover Up
    7.5/10(9 votes)

    #7 - 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
  9. Background image for Ruins of the Rust Belt
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #8 - Ruins of the Rust Belt

    S7:E7

    A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner of the world.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Mafia Bunker
    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #9 - The Mafia Bunker

    S7:E6

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for El Dorado Canyon
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #10 - El Dorado Canyon

    S7:E5

    An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for American Ghost Park
    7.1/10(10 votes)

    #11 - American Ghost Park

    S7:E8

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Fortress of the Sky
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #12 - Fortress of the Sky

    S7:E9

    Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Silent Cities
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    #13 - 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
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Mission: Space
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    #14 - Mission: Space

    S1:E2

    We aim for the stars and find out why unwanted battleship guns allow the United States to gain vital information about the borders of space. We ask how the shattered remains of a secret Nazi base became the first on the path to a new world, with the development of the ground-breaking V2 rocket. We explore a forgotten structure deep in the Arizona desert to ask if it is the true home of America's space programme. And we reveal the bizarre link between a discarded oil drum and a Cold War struggle to survive in zero gravity.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Lost Bridges
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    #15 - 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
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Ghost Ships
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    #16 - Ghost Ships

    S1:E4

    Exploring ship graveyards, including Scapa Flow in Orkney, where German warships were scuttled after the First World War, and Mallows Bay, home to 200 wrecks colonised by wildlife.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Quest for Power
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    #17 - Quest for Power

    S1:E5

    How Europe's most advanced power station became a film set. Plus, the structures made by scientific pioneer Nikola Tesla in his thwarted quest to prove the US with free electricity.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Roads to Nowhere
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    #18 - 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
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Hitler's Army Powerhouse
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    #19 - 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
  21. Background image for Britain's Sea Fort Complex
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    #20 - 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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  22. Background image for The Italian Dam Disaster
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    #21 - 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
  23. Background image for Battle of Britain Technology Facility
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    #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
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Abandoned Nazi Railway
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    #23 - 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
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  25. Background image for America's Jungle City
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    #24 - 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
  26. Background image for Germany's Lost Warship
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    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"Stalin's Subway" is the best rated episode of "Abandoned Engineering". It scored 8.2/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/20/2021. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Global Icons".