Abandoned Engineering
TV-PG
7.7
2017
Documentary
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.
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- Cast:
- Tom Ward
Episode 12 : Niagara's Hidden Marvel
June. 06,2022
Exploring a royal retreat caught in a web of corruption, an engineering marvel hidden behind the Niagara Falls in Canada, and a subterranean treasure.
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Episode 11 : Treasures To Die For
May. 30,2022
Exploring Hartwood, a haunting facility in Scotland, ruins of an ancient city in Iraq and a scandal hit town in New Mexico.
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Episode 10 : Alien Contact
May. 23,2022
Exploring a complex in Georgia pointing into deep space that almost discovered a signal from aliens.
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Episode 9 : Ancient Encounter
May. 16,2022
Exploring a picturesque French castle, the ruins of a Kansas City hospital, an ancient Turkish city, and an island in Ireland that brought its inhabitants closer to God.
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Episode 8 : Experiments of War
May. 09,2022
Exploring a crumbling dam hidden in the Welsh valleys, a quaint outpost on a paradise island, and a mastery of ancient engineering that brought life to the planes of Mexico.
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Episode 7 : Trouble In Paradise
May. 02,2022
Exploring a luxury resort in Argentina, a Greek palace above a Mexican city and a former hotel in Hawaii.
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Episode 6 : Ruins of Empire
April. 25,2022
Exploring a British fort that became a bizzare zoo, a brutalist school for Communist top brass and a lost world hides secrets of a vanished people.
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Episode 5 : Apocolyptic Skyscraper
April. 18,2022
Exploring a ruined castle above a German village, a rural town in Idaho, a futuristic skyscraper in Johannesburg and a fantasy world outside of Buenos Aires.
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Episode 4 : Tunnel of Terrors
April. 11,2022
Exploring a military strong-hold in the Philippines, a facility that spawned an American sporting great, and an English relic that hosted a cinematic sensation.
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Episode 3 : The Beached Leviathan
April. 04,2022
The graffitied remains of a correctional facility in Atlanta, USA with a controversial and unexpected past, forgotten remnants of fraud and fusion on the Western border of Argentina and a mysterious ancient complex built by a devoted Khmer King in the jungles of Cambodia.
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Episode 2 : Jungle Fantasy Land
March. 28,2022
Exploring the remains of a pioneering industry town in Ohio, a once beautiful Croatian resort bombarded by enemy fire, and an otherworldly garden of Eden in Mexico.
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Episode 1 : Megalomaniac's Palace
March. 21,2022
Exploring a once lavish palace in Iraq, the Sathorn Unique, an epic ghost tower in Thailand, and a former sports stadium in Georgia, USA
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