Season 1

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  6.8/1019 votes

  Pripyat/Picher

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/13/2011

  The story of two cities abandoned by the industrial disasters. Pripyat, Ukraine, is the closest city to Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear disaster. Picher, Oklahoma, a center for lead and zinc mining, is one the most toxic towns in America.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.4/1011 votes

  Bodie/Namibia

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/2/2011

  Diamonds and gold lured people to very inhospitable places. In Africa's Namibian desert, German miners built European towns in a sand-blasted hell. On the treeless high Sierras of California, gold-rush era miners carved a city miles from civilization.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.2/1011 votes

  Balestrino/Hunters Point

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/1/2011

  As it fell apart around them, the residents of Balestrino abandoned their homes in the medieval town once ruled by a murderous Marquis. At Hunters Point, San Francisco, the massive industrial spaces succumb to an invasion by the forces of nature.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.2/1012 votes

  Salton Sea/Weston

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/8/2011

  Once hailed it as the next Palm Springs, Salton Sea is now populated only with decaying vacation homes and dead fish carcasses. West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum stands empty – but it’s filled with dark secrets.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.9/107 votes

  Chile/Detroit

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/15/2011

  High in Chile’s Altacama Desert, the eerie remains of Humberstone and Santa Laura evoke the glory days of South America’s nitrate mining era, while Detroit’s shattered factories and abandoned neighborhoods stand a stark warning for post-industrial man.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.1/107 votes

  Hashima/Gary

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/22/2011

  Hashima, Japan, is a coal-mining island that was once the most populated city on Earth and is now a decaying hulk filled with rubble in the middle of the sea. Gary, Indiana was built on steel, but hard times turned the downtown into an urban wasteland.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown