About this season
Documentary series investigating why some of the world's most advanced architectural achievements were abandoned.
Episodes (11)
1. The Good, Bad and Abandoned
Aired 20 May 2021 • 45 min
The world's abandoned structures hold new evidence about the lives and deeds of history's greatest heroes and villains, and using the latest discoveries at these mysterious sites, experts count down the ten most significant.
2. Ruins of Disaster Park
Aired 27 May 2021 • 45 min
A collection of ramshackle structures with a mystical facade lie mysteriously deserted on the tropical island of Bali; experts investigate and uncover the ruins of a bizarre amusement park complex with a disastrous past.
3. Fortress of Nuclear Secrets
Aired 3 June 2021 • 45 min
Experts investigate bunkers that conceal a deadly nuclear secret.
4. Plague on Hell Island
Aired 10 June 2021 • 45 min
Experts investigate the deadly legacy of an abandoned sea fort.
5. Florida Death Fortress
Aired 17 June 2021 • 45 min
A desert island contains a marooned structure with a contagious past.
6. Hollywood vs. Nazis
Aired 24 June 2021 • 45 min
A war-torn Italian ghost town immortalized by a legendary Hollywood director blurs the lines between fiction and reality; experts investigate and uncover a forgotten landscape of ruins captured in a WWII documentary.
7. Hitler's Nightmare Palace
Aired 1 July 2021 • 45 min
The ruins of a dreamlike Polish palace hide an astonishingly dark history that's shrouded in mystery to this day; experts investigate and uncover an ornate gothic structure that concealed a nightmare of Nazi experimentation.
8. Alien Ghost Tower
Aired 8 July 2021 • 45 min
A breathtaking stainless steel tower seems otherworldly and out of place in the remote mountain forests of Croatia; experts investigate and uncover a dark past of Nazi-led conflict and a monument to a desperate fight for survival.
9. Russian Mafia Resort
4.0Aired 15 July 2021 • 45 min
Experts uncover a derelict resort complex constructed by the Russian mafia.
10. Ghosts of Mount Fortune
Aired 22 July 2021 • 45 min
The haunting remains of an isolated ghost town high in the Colorado mountains suggest a once booming mining community left in devastation; experts uncover an inhospitable land of shattered dreams where fortune seekers chased the American dream.
11. Chinese Nuclear Box
Aired 29 July 2021 • 45 min
An enormous concrete box with bizarre circular openings looms on the coast of an island near mainland China; Experts investigate and uncover tunnels leading to an enormous underground complex that nearly triggered a nuclear war.