Abandoned Engineering — Season 6
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 (11)
1. The Lost Pirate City
Aired 9 July 2020 • 44 min
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.
2. Forbidden Island
7.0Aired 16 July 2020 • 44 min
Examining a ghost island once belonging to a secretive country on the fringes of Europe. Also, a haunting site in the UK with evidence of strange burial practices.
3. Blast Zone
8.0Aired 23 July 2020 • 44 min
Within a dense Polish woodland sits a forgotten complex with an explosive history. Also, grand coastal defences in Ghana reveal a tortured past.
4. North Of The Wall
8.0Aired 30 July 2020 • 44 min
A complex of stone buildings near Hadrian's Wall that were built to keep Northern hoards at bay. Also, a top secret military facility in the American Midwest.
5. The World's Strangest Disaster Zones
9.0Aired 6 August 2020 • 89 min
An extended special featuring a deserted Caribbean city, an American ghost town still burning and an Arctic settlement facing a terrifying future.
6. Defenders Of Liberty
7.0Aired 3 November 2020 • 44 min
A now silent site that played a pivotal role defending the U.S through the 20th century. Plus, a crumbling Italian fortress and a ghostly Ukrainian mansion.
7. Space Plane
7.0Aired 10 November 2020 • 44 min
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.
8. Disaster On The 38th Parallel
8.0Aired 17 November 2020 • 44 min
The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a mysterious structure on the 38th parallel.
9. Bunker Nation
7.0Aired 24 November 2020 • 44 min
A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the forefront of weapons technology.
10. The Human Zoo
7.0Aired 1 December 2020 • 44 min
A creepy collection of buildings, monuments hidden in a Parisian park and an eerie graveyard of discarded ships strewn along the banks of a mighty river.
11. Spike Island
8.0Aired 8 December 2020 • 44 min
An impressive compound commandeered and repurposed by a brutal regime and an eerie complex off the coast of Ireland that became the biggest of its kind.