Abandoned Engineering
Structures of steel and iron eerily stand unfinished after they were abandoned midway in construction, covered in weeds, moss and rust, the show explores what they could have been.
Genre: Documentary
Cast:Tom Ward , Dominic Selwood , Rob Bell , James S. Corum , James Meigs , Andrew Gough , Lynette Nusbacher , Sascha Auerbach , Claire Barratt , Dougal Jerram , Geoffrey Wawro , Roma Agrawal , Fran Scott , Shini Somara , Michele Mitchell , Daniel Dickrell , Saul David , David Caldwell-Evans
S4.E1 ∙ The World's Strangest Ghost Town
A Soviet town that that was built as the Russion version of the American dream life of wealth and prosperity and was suddenly turned into a nuclear nightmare scenario. A town in the US that has been almost completely erased, and a settlement in Argentina destroyed by floods.
S4.E2 ∙ Palace of Death
It was intended to bring the French rail network to the forefront of land based public transportation Developed in France from 1965 to 1977 the Aérotrain was an experimental Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle (TACV), or hover train. Now sections of concrete line are all that is left.
S4.E3 ∙ Guernsey Nazi Towers
On the island of Guernsey, stands an abandoned construction which was once the height of war technology. In 1942 the Germans decided they were vulnerable and built the reinforced concrete structures to defend their occupation of the islands.
S4.E4 ∙ Bodie USA
Bodie is a deserted town in USA. It became a boom town in 1876 after the discovery of gold. When that ran out, it declined and in 1915 was officially recognised as a ghost town. Also investigated, a maze of tunnels under Paris, and a group of domed structures standing in the sea of a Florida coast.
S4.E5 ∙ Tunnel to the Underworld
An abandoned town in West Virginia owes its fate to the decline of steam trains. A 2000 year old underground system in Italy begs answers. A massive ex military dry dock on the American west coast lies in ruins, and an island in Costa Rica hides a grim history of mayhem in an old, abandoned prison.
S4.E6 ∙ Escobar's Ruin
Once the home to dictator Pablo Escobar, a ruined compound in Colombia, and strange structures looking like an abandoned art project, in an empty English marshland in Denge, near Dungeness in Kent, are both investigated to reveal their secrets.
S4.E7 ∙ Villa De Vecci Rhodes
On the island of Rhodes, a damaged and vandalised villa with a sordid past. In the woods of West Virginia a rusted industrial structure, and an edifice adorned with signs and symbols that spirals into the ground. What caused their decline ?
S4.E8 ∙ Pyramiden Norway
The remains of a construction project in southern Germany, a Arctic Soviet mining town with a sad history, strange basins near the Golden Gate Bridge, and a deserted group of buildings on the southern tip of Australia. What happened to result in their current condition ?
S4.E9 ∙ Behind the Berlin Wall Special
Tito's hidden Cold War submarine base on the island of Vis in Yugoslavia, the Stazi headquarters building and prison in Berlin, a disused sports centre hiding an underground bunker with sinister secrets, and an abandoned city within a city which housed the former Soviet Army Headquarters in East Berlin.
S4.E10 ∙ Bannock USA
In Montana USA, an abandoned wild west type town, a once peaceful village that profited from poison manufacture and sale destroyed by war, and a massive tunnel network under a mountain that cost thousands of lives, all now lie abandoned but not forgotten.
S4.E11 ∙ Buckner Building Alaska
A rusting disassembled structure in Budapest, Hungary, a huge deserted building in southern Alaska, strange abandoned features that were once the future of Spain, and long meandering fortifications built by the Germans to defend Hitler's Third Reich.
S4.E12 ∙ 1936 Olympic Village Berlin
A rusting wreck lying off the violent coast of South Africa, the remains of a village built in celebration but marked with controversy, and the deserted shell of a house that is still feared by the locals. Why were they abandoned and fall into disuse ?
