Abandoned Engineering — Season 10
Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.
About this season
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 examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.
Episodes (12)
1. Raiders & Invaders
Aired 5 September 2022 • 43 min
Explore Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town drenched in infamy, the victim of a notorious raid, Alcatraz, a facility famed for breakouts, subjected to a daring break-in, and Sealand, a micronation off the English coast, stormed by a band of mercenaries.
2. The Rock
Aired 12 September 2022 • 43 min
The Tunnels of Gibraltar were a Second World War espionage base, hidden in the Rock of Gibraltar, which lay undiscovered for decades. At Atlas-1 Test Site, are the remains of an ingenious US Airforce project that continues to keep people safe.
3. Enemy At The Gates
8.0Aired 19 September 2022 • 43 min
Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opportunity, crime and destitution.
4. Cowboy Mountain
Aired 26 September 2022 • 43 min
Exploring the remains of an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once know as the Venice of the air
5. Drone Wars
Aired 3 October 2022 • 43 min
Exploring Agdam, a city in Azerbaijan raised to the ground in a conflict decided by a new weapon of war.
6. Moonshot
Aired 10 October 2022 • 43 min
Exploring an industrial ruin in the Florida Everglades that once competed in the greatest race humankind has ever witnessed.
7. Rock And Ruin
Aired 17 October 2022 • 43 min
Exploring traces of a mass deception hidden at Ponte Dirillo in Italy, as well as a once lavish theatre in Ohio and an ancient city with a poisonous secret.
8. Castle Of The Occult
Aired 24 October 2022 • 44 min
Explores a dense forest near the Czech capital of Prague that hides Houska Castle, an eerie keep that has been subject to long-standing rumours that it possesses supernatural powers.
9. The Green Line
8.0Aired 31 October 2022 • 44 min
Exploring Serbia, Fort Pike in Louisiana, and a mountainside refuge in Georgia that was revealed to the world by an act of God.
10. Blitz Spirit
Aired 7 November 2022 • 44 min
Exploring a grand structure in Hull that was reduced to rubble by Hitler's planes, Casa Albero in Italy, USS Hornet in California and the Sofia tunnels.
11. An American Exodus
Aired 14 November 2022 • 43 min
Exploring a decrepit Liberian landmark with American origins, a desolate town in Belgium and a pioneering scientific structure in Cleveland.
12. The Drop
Aired 21 November 2022 • 44 min
Exploring the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans that dared to take on the authorities and paid the price and Belgica Fort, built to defend an unlikely treasure.